NPM dependencies for new DBCompiler options "API project compilation" and "HTML applications" in 8.1 (4322636)

Starting with version 8.1 One Identity Manager's DBCompiler offers two new compilation options for its new API server and HTML applications:

• API project compilation
• HTML applications
  

For these two options to work the compiler needs access to packages from the NPM repository. This concerns:

- The machine where the Configuration Wizard is running during One Identity Manager database installation or upgrade.

- Any machines where the database is compiled using DBCompiler or Designer. 

In order to provide access to the packages the options are:

- Allow network access to the NPM repository website (registry.npmjs.org:443).

- Use npm_lazy cache server as described in Knowledge Article 306339, Installing IMX web applications in an offline environment with the npm_lazy cache server (recommended if network access is not possible).

- Use local-npm replicating from a machine with internet access, more details here: local-npm

- Use a different local registry such as Artifacts

- Create a local configuration for download via proxy.  This requires local or user specific npm configuration.  The default path for the former is %UserProfile%\.npmrc, e.g. c:\users\username\.npmrc, the default path for the latter is %ProgramData%\nodejs\node-\etc\npmrc, e.g. C:\ProgramData\nodejs\node-v8.11.3-win-x64\etc.  Please adjust the examples below with the correct prefixes, versions and addresses.

- Download NPM packages via proxy.

npmrc example:

prefix=C:\ProgramData\nodejs\node-v8.11.3-win-x64\node_modules\npm

cache=C:\temp\npm-cache

fetch-retry-mintimeout=8000

fetch-retry-maxtimeout=10000

https-proxy=http://user:password@proxyserver.loc:8118/

proxy=http://user:password@proxyserver.loc:8118/

strict-ssl=false

registry=https://registry.npmjs.org/

_auth=

save=true

save-exact=true

progress=true

ca=


For more information regarding configuration of npm, please refer to The npm config files.