

Run install again, and your project should be up and running. NPM will still be communicating with the default registry, and with throw an error on NPM install of the private package. And now all your developers can use it, not exactly. Let’s say your company has created a Node package that contains proprietary information, or for some other reason you don’t want it to be public. So we will skip over that and get right to a use case. Check that it's not a problem with a package you're trying to install (e.g. This can be caused by corporate proxies that give HTML responses to package.json requests. Run npm cache clean and/or try again later.

Creating a private registry is another post for another day. Possible temporary npm registry glitch, or corrupted local server cache. However there are situations where a private registry is needed. For most projects, the public registry is exactly what you need, and is the default registry of NPM. We’ve all used NPM before, but where is all that information coming from? Enter the NPM registry, which allows for packages to be resolved by name and version, allows for package publishing, and user account management.
