Fix private NPM auth (PoC)

[rhyskoedijk]

PoC to test fix for #685 (comment)

[rhyskoedijk]

@mburumaxwell would it be possible to get a preview NPM image built and published for this feature branch for @DaleMckeown to re-test #685 (comment)?

I have tested this locally using my own private Azure DevOps NPM feed and the TL;DR; is that if I strip "https://" from the registry name when adding auth to .npmrc, it works. I am not sure if this is just a Azure DevOps quirk, or something that applies to all private NPM feeds, so I'm keen to see if it works for other users facing this issue.

[mburumaxwell]

I maybe wrong but I don't think this can work from a fork because of push permissions. You can try this by changing the conditions in the workflow so that the docker image is pushed.

The fastest/easiest way to test would be building and running the docker image locally.

[rhyskoedijk]

Going to abandon this in favor of moving to dependabot-cli or similar. See #1317 (reply in thread) and #1318.