Verdaccio is an incredible tool. We (<a href="https://sheetjs.com" rel="nofollow">https://sheetjs.com</a>) use it in production for distributing node modules to customers.<p>Before verdaccio, we used to post tarballs that customers would download and use, but that became cumbersome. We looked into the official npmjs service, but their pricing model ($7/user/mo, sharing private modules requires all users to have a paid account) didn't make sense in a situation with many users downloading once a month. Verdaccio let us manage the distribution on a single $5/mo digital ocean droplet and it's been working very well. We post modules to a separate scope and users configure their npm clients to download from our registry for that specific scope.<p>It was the first time we came across an open source project where we could actually quantify the saving, and our contributions through their OC (<a href="https://opencollective.com/verdaccio" rel="nofollow">https://opencollective.com/verdaccio</a>) are a drop in the bucket compared to the savings.
Congrats on the release I'm always happy to see competitors to the likes of NPM which whilst being a great tool have a bit too much of a monopoly<p>I've had a good run using nexus as a free self hosted repository ( both in the professional and personal space ) - just wndering what are the benefits in me investing time to use verdacio?
I use a self-hosted verdaccio (docker) extensively for my own projects for a long time without as much as a hiccup.<p>It was also a very useful tool for learning and practicing publishing before the actual push to npmjs.org<p>If you use Python, I recommend DevPi which is something similar.