running your own npm repository with verdaccio

Verdaccio seems pretty good to set up your own local npm repository, like a poor man's artifactory (guess these all have passthroughs to the main npm).  Here's a decent walkthrough for a hello, world.

UPDATE A few weeks later, I'm more fond of verrdaccio. My guess is that using it is a more "real" experience than using `npm link` when you're pulling from your local repos, and it smoothly passes through requests for all the other packages that's aren't local, so
npm set registry http://localhost:4873/
is a safe enough thing to do - but then you have to make sure it starts up every time you log in or run it yourself (I kind of like having it in a background terminal window and watching it handle all those requests, especially now that I have an extra vertical monitor to run it on.)

Publish command is npm publish --registry http://localhost:4873
 

UPDATE 2: fair warning, if you're using verdaccio and npm, your package-lock.json might be full of localhost:4873 ... they say npm is now agnostic about which registry you used to generate the package-lock.json but I'm not sure if that means the hosts in the URL don't matter??