---
id: plugins
title: "Plugins"
---

Verdaccio is a pluggable application. It can be extended in many ways, either new authentication methods, adding endpoints or using a custom storage.

There are 5 types of plugins:

* [Authentication](plugin-auth.md)
* [Middleware](plugin-middleware.md)
* [Storage](plugin-storage.md)
* Custom Theme and filters

> If you are interested to develop your own plugin, read the [development](dev-plugins.md) section.

## Usage {#usage}

### Installation {#installation}

```bash
$> npm install --global verdaccio-activedirectory
```

`verdaccio` as a sinopia fork it has backward compatibility with plugins that are compatible with `sinopia@1.4.0`. In such case the installation is the same.

```
$> npm install --global sinopia-memory
```

### Configuration {#configuration}

Open the `config.yaml` file and update the `auth` section as follows:

The default configuration looks like this, due we use a build-in `htpasswd` plugin by default that you can disable just commenting out the following lines.


### Authentication Configuration {#authentication-configuration}

```yaml
  htpasswd:
    file: ./htpasswd
    # max_users: 1000
```

and replacing them with (in case you decide to use a `ldap` plugin.

```yaml
auth:
  activedirectory:
    url: "ldap://10.0.100.1"
    baseDN: 'dc=sample,dc=local'
    domainSuffix: 'sample.local'
```

#### Multiple Authentication plugins {#multiple-authentication-plugins}

This is technically possible, making the plugin order important, as the credentials will be resolved in order.

```yaml
auth:
  htpasswd:
    file: ./htpasswd
    #max_users: 1000
  activedirectory:
    url: "ldap://10.0.100.1"
    baseDN: 'dc=sample,dc=local'
    domainSuffix: 'sample.local'
```

### Middleware Configuration {#middleware-configuration}

This is an example how to set up a middleware plugin. All middleware plugins must be defined in the **middlewares** namespace.

```yaml
middlewares:
  audit:
    enabled: true
```

> You might follow the [audit middle plugin](https://github.com/verdaccio/verdaccio-audit) as base example.

### Storage Configuration {#storage-configuration}

This is an example how to set up a storage plugin. All storage plugins must be defined in the **store** namespace.

```yaml
store:
  memory:
    limit: 1000
```

### Theme Configuration {#theme-configuration}

Verdaccio allows to replace the User Interface with a custom one, we call it **theme**.
By default, uses `@verdaccio/ui-theme` that comes built-in, but, you can use something different installing your own plugin.

```bash

$> npm install --global verdaccio-theme-dark

```

> The plugin name prefix must start with `verdaccio-theme`, otherwise the plugin won't load.


You can load only one theme at a time and pass through options if you need it.

```yaml
theme:
  dark:
    option1: foo
    option2: bar
```

### Theme plugin development

> Since v.5.0.0

If you have a custom UI plugin for the them you will need to adapt your build to the new requirements.

The previous version you only need to return a function with a string and the path of the directory.  

```
const path = require('path');

module.exports = () => {
  return path.join(__dirname, 'static');
};
```

The module must return an object and the `index.html` is ignored since support dynamic rendering, eg:

```
  staticPath: '/somePath/node_modules/verdaccio-theme-custom/static',
  manifest: {
    'main.js': '-/static/main.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'runtime.js': '-/static/runtime.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'NotFound.js': '-/static/NotFound.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'Provider.js': '-/static/Provider.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'Version.js': '-/static/Version.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'Home.js': '-/static/Home.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'Versions.js': '-/static/Versions.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'UpLinks.js': '-/static/UpLinks.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'Dependencies.js': '-/static/Dependencies.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'Engines.js': '-/static/Engines.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'Dist.js': '-/static/Dist.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'Install.js': '-/static/Install.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'Repository.js': '-/static/Repository.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    'vendors.js': '-/static/vendors.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    '718.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js': '-/static/718.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    '238.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js': '-/static/238.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js',
    '73.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js': '-/static/73.c21a97b1dbe8456a9c76.js'
  },
  manifestFiles: { js: [ 'runtime.js', 'vendors.js', 'main.js' ] }
```
- `staticPath`: is the same data returned in Verdaccio 4.
- `manifest`: A webpack manifest object.
- `manifestFiles`: A object with one property `js` and the array (order matters) of the manifest id to be loaded in the template dynamically.

#### Manifest and Webpack {#manifest-and-webpack}

Verdaccio uses the webpack [manifest](https://webpack.js.org/concepts/manifest/) object to render the html dynamically, in combination with the `manifestFiles` the application understand what to render.

> Currently only support `js` but if you also need `css`, we are open to discuss it and further improvements.

```
const { WebpackManifestPlugin } = require('webpack-manifest-plugin');

  plugins: [
    ...
    new WebpackManifestPlugin({
      removeKeyHash: true,
    }),
    ...
  ],

```

## Legacy plugins {#legacy-plugins}

### Sinopia Plugins {#sinopia-plugins}

> If you are relying on any sinopia plugin, remember are deprecated and might no work in the future.

* [sinopia-npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-npm): auth plugin for sinopia supporting an npm registry.
* [sinopia-memory](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-memory): auth plugin for sinopia that keeps users in memory.
* [sinopia-github-oauth-cli](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-github-oauth-cli).
* [sinopia-crowd](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-crowd): auth plugin for sinopia supporting atlassian crowd.
* [sinopia-activedirectory](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-activedirectory): Active Directory authentication plugin for sinopia.
* [sinopia-github-oauth](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-github-oauth): authentication plugin for sinopia2, supporting github oauth web flow.
* [sinopia-delegated-auth](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-delegated-auth): Sinopia authentication plugin that delegates authentication to another HTTP URL
* [sinopia-altldap](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-altldap): Alternate LDAP Auth plugin for Sinopia
* [sinopia-request](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-request): An easy and fully auth-plugin with configuration to use an external API.
* [sinopia-htaccess-gpg-email](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-htaccess-gpg-email): Generate password in htaccess format, encrypt with GPG and send via MailGun API to users.
* [sinopia-mongodb](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-mongodb): An easy and fully auth-plugin with configuration to use a mongodb database.
* [sinopia-htpasswd](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-htpasswd): auth plugin for sinopia supporting htpasswd format.
* [sinopia-leveldb](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-leveldb): a leveldb backed auth plugin for sinopia private npm.
* [sinopia-gitlabheres](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-gitlabheres): Gitlab authentication plugin for sinopia.
* [sinopia-gitlab](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-gitlab): Gitlab authentication plugin for sinopia
* [sinopia-ldap](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-ldap): LDAP auth plugin for sinopia.
* [sinopia-github-oauth-env](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinopia-github-oauth-env) Sinopia authentication plugin with github oauth web flow.

> All sinopia plugins should be compatible with all future verdaccio versions. Anyhow, we encourage contributors to migrate them to the
modern verdaccio API and using the prefix as *verdaccio-xx-name*.