remote-tarball-fetcher allows to fetch tarballs from registries such as npm and GitHub and manage them locally.
✅ npm registry
Fetching tarballs from the npm registry
import { TarballManager, npmFetcher } from "remote-tarball-fetcher";
const manager = new TarballManager(npmFetcher);Download latest versions available in the registry:
// both tarballs will be stored in a local registry, default to os.tmpdir();
const location1 = await manager.downloadAndStore("lodash");
const location2 = await manager.downloadAndStore("@nodesecure/ci");
// won't be downloaded again as is automatically managed by a local cache
const sameAsLocation1 = await manager.downloadAndStore("lodash");Or target specific versions using semantic versioning:
const location = await manager.downloadAndStore("skott@0.2.0");