.npmrc

[breautek]

Feature Request

• Add .npmrc file to assert using https://registry.npmjs.org registry.

Motivation Behind Feature

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/raa963b0c2349e8d08d6c2f9d557b9055402d6410d35d4e9573b63cab%40%3Cdev.cordova.apache.org%3E

To summarize, for users who have alternate NPM configurations and use private and/or NPM mirrors, it can be easy to install packages from a source other than the official NPM registry without realizing it. It's in Cordova's interest to ensure that NPM runs with a configuration of using the official NPM registry.

We can correct this via adding an .npmrc file to each of our repos with the following config:

registry=https://registry.npmjs.org

Implementation Progress

Platforms

• cordova-android (apache/cordova-android#1348)
• cordova-browser (apache/cordova-browser#117)
• cordova-electron
• cordova-ios (apache/cordova-ios#1145)

Plugins

• cordova-plugin-battery-status
• cordova-plugin-camera (apache/cordova-plugin-camera#893)
• cordova-plugin-device
• cordova-plugin-dialogs
• cordova-plugin-file (apache/cordova-plugin-file#490)
• cordova-plugin-file-transfer (apache/cordova-plugin-file-transfer#323)
• cordova-plugin-geolocation (apache/cordova-plugin-geolocation#236)
• cordova-plugin-inappbrowser
• cordova-plugin-media
• cordova-plugin-media-capture
• cordova-plugin-network-information
• cordova-plugin-screen-orientation (apache/cordova-plugin-screen-orientation#103)
• cordova-plugin-splashscreen
• cordova-plugin-statusbar
• cordova-plugin-vibration

Tooling

• cordova-cli (apache/cordova-cli#564)
• cordova-coho (apache/cordova-coho#288)
• cordova-common (apache/cordova-common#173)
• cordova-create
• cordova-fetch
• cordova-js
• cordova-lib (apache/cordova-lib#881)
• cordova-node-xcode
• cordova-paramedic (apache/cordova-paramedic#223)
• cordova-plugin-test-framework
• cordova-serve
• cordova-docs (apache/cordova-docs#1204)
• cordova-app-hello-world
• cordova-test-platform
• cordova-mobile-spec
• cordova-plugman (apache/cordova-plugman#157)
• cordova-eslint (apache/cordova-eslint#18)

Excluded:

• cordova-status
• cordova
• any unused, outdated, or deprecated repos