Hello! I’m attempting to use Bitrise to build my React Native application. Bitrise detected React Native perfectly, but when it attempts to install packages (running npm install) it fails with a 404 error from NPM on one of our private NPM packages.
I’ve tried to search around for a solution to this, the only thing I can find is documentation from NPM stating that I need to declare an NPM_TOKEN environment variable which matches my token in ~/.npmrc. I’ve added this as a Secret and an Environment Variable in my Bitrise workflow but the issue persists. Is there something I’m missing here?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
I answered my own question! Apparently, the NPM_TOKEN parameter is only respected by Heroku. As a result, the only solution is to place the token in ~/.npmrc on the CI server. I’ve added a script to my Workflow to run the following, which copies the NPM_TOKEN variable from the Workflow Secrets to the ~/.npmrc file…
#!/bin/bash
# fail if any commands fails
set -e
# debug log
set -x
# write your script here
echo "//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}" > ~/.npmrc
# or run a script from your repository, like:
# bash ./path/to/script.sh
# not just bash, e.g.:
# ruby ./path/to/script.rb
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Thanks for reporting the solution @jessedunlap, I’m sure it’ll help others in the future! 
Happy Building! 
This saved me after hours of trying to get it to run. Thx man
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