heroku-buildpack-npmrc

A Heroku buildpack for overriding the .npmrc file in the build directory with the contents of a config var. Necessary for authorizing with npm when installing private packages.

1. Open https://github.com/settings/tokens/new
2. Create a Github Personal Access token with the following scopes: repo, write:packages and read:packages
3. Run heroku config:set API_CLIENT_GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN=token, replacing token with the token you created on step 2
4. Add the buildpack to your Heroku app either using the CLI or the Heroku dashboard. The heroku-buildpack-npmrc needs to run before any buildpack using npm. In the following example, it runs before the heroku/nodejs buildpack.

$ heroku buildpacks:set --index 1 https://github.com/mindfulchefuk/heroku-buildpack-npmrc.git
$ heroku buildpacks:add heroku/nodejs