[snorremd]

If GitLab can pull off the npm registry well this might be the beginning of a universal package management server built into Gitlab. A bit like the self hosted Nexus registry or Artifactory.

Not sure if it wouldn't be just as well to run Nexus OSS instead though? https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss

You might not get as tight of integration as Gitlab will provide, but the Nexus OSS repository provides some nice features in terms of cleaning up old artifacts, some disk usage policies, etc.