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Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Tarun Arora, Utkarsh Shigihalli
Book Image

Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Tarun Arora, Utkarsh Shigihalli

Overview of this book

Previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), Azure DevOps Server is a comprehensive on-premise DevOps toolset with a rich ecosystem of open source plugins. This book will help you learn how to effectively use the different Azure DevOps services. You will start by building high-quality scalable software targeting .NET, .NET Core and Node.js applications. Next, you will learn techniques that will help you to set up end-to-end traceability of your code changes, from design through to release. Whether you are deploying software on-premise or in the cloud in App Service, Functions, or Azure VMs, this book will help you learn release management techniques to reduce failures. As you progress, you will be able to secure application configuration by using Azure Key Vault. You will also understand how to create and release extensions to the Azure DevOps marketplace and reach the million-strong developer ecosystem for feedback. Later, the working extension samples will even allow you to iterate changes in your extensions easily and release updates to the marketplace quickly. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to break down the invisible silos between your software development teams, and transform them into a modern cross-functional software development team.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Consuming NPM package from the Artifacts feed


In the previous recipe, we published our sample npm package to Azure Artifacts. In this recipe, we will explore how we can consume the artifact that we published and make use of it. Since we have already enabled upstream sources for our repository, we can also fetch all the dependent packages from our feed.

Getting ready

This recipe is a continuation of the previous Publishing NPM package to Artifacts recipe. I recommend that you read it before continuing if you have not already done so.

To demonstrate the upstream npm package, I installed the colors package into our original module using the npm install colors --save command. This created an external dependency in our node module so the Artifacts would cache this external package into our feed.

I also changed the code in our index.js file so that we can use the colors module and print the console text in blue:

var colors = require("colors")
exports.printAzureDevOps = function () {
    console.log...