Hey there! Our team is currently utilizing Jenkins and we have a step in our pipeline where we download dependencies like mocha, cucumber, etc. using
npm install
Unfortunately, the client's Jenkins does not have internet access, nor do they have any dependency management server like artefactory.
Is it feasible to package the necessary dependencies from node_modules into a zip or tar file so that they can be imported globally? This way, there would be no need to run npm install for each job, and the packages would already be available as global packages.
Would each project, such as cucumber, need to be downloaded separately and then imported using a file path?
I would appreciate your insights, as I am struggling to find much information on what seems to be a common issue with organizations restricting outbound internet access on their servers initially.
Thanks!