How to add GitHub authentication informations in the circleCI config for Package publishing?

Question

I'm setting up the config.yml file for CircleCI in my repo in order for it to publish it as a GitHub NPM package.

Before running the npm publish command, we need to authenticate on the GitHub NPM registry using Username, password (Personnal Access Token) and Email.

I have stored those as Environment Variables and can call them with ${PACKAGE_PAT}, ${PACKAGE_ACCOUNT} and ${PACKAGE_EMAIL}.

So now I have 0 clue about how to add these informations in the process, I would really appreciate some help on that please (first time using a CI).

Here's the config file I've set up so far :

version: 2.1

executors:
  my-executor:
    docker:
      - image: circleci/node:10-browsers
    working_directory: ~/repo

jobs:
  build:
    executor: my-executor
    steps:
      - checkout
      - restore_cache:
          key: repo-{{ .Branch }}-{{ checksum "package-lock.json" }}
      - save_cache:
          key: repo-{{ .Branch }}-{{ checksum "package-lock.json" }}
          paths:
            - 'node_modules'
      - run: npm install
      - run: npm run build
      - run: npm login --registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com/
      - run: npm publish
workflows:
  version: 2
  auto_package_workflow:
    jobs:
      - build:
          filters:
            branches:
              only:
                - /feature\/FRON-1144.*/

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 12 '19 at 14:34

I checked and followed the documentation for the npm registry and set my config as this below. Username and email are not necessary. This works great.

      - run:
          name: Publish to GitHub Packages
          command: |
            npm set //npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${GITHUB_PACKAGE_PAT}
            npm publish

How to add GitHub authentication informations in the circleCI config for Package publishing?

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