Verdaccio is an incredible tool. We (https://sheetjs.com) use it in production for distributing node modules to customers.

Before verdaccio, we used to post tarballs that customers would download and use, but that became cumbersome. We looked into the official npmjs service, but their pricing model ($7/user/mo, sharing private modules requires all users to have a paid account) didn't make sense in a situation with many users downloading once a month. Verdaccio let us manage the distribution on a single $5/mo digital ocean droplet and it's been working very well. We post modules to a separate scope and users configure their npm clients to download from our registry for that specific scope.

It was the first time we came across an open source project where we could actually quantify the saving, and our contributions through their OC (https://opencollective.com/verdaccio) are a drop in the bucket compared to the savings.

Congrats on the release I'm always happy to see competitors to the likes of NPM which whilst being a great tool have a bit too much of a monopoly

I've had a good run using nexus as a free self hosted repository ( both in the professional and personal space ) - just wndering what are the benefits in me investing time to use verdacio?

I use a self-hosted verdaccio (docker) extensively for my own projects for a long time without as much as a hiccup.

It was also a very useful tool for learning and practicing publishing before the actual push to npmjs.org

If you use Python, I recommend DevPi which is something similar.

We use verdaccio on cloudron. Thanks for this great project. All our private npms are there