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Help with NPM feed and publishing the package as an ISV

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Posted on by LuizVentura

Hi guys,

We are an ISV company and we have created some e-commerce modules to distribute together with our D365F&O solution.

We've heard from Microsoft that the best way to distribute these modules for partners/customers is creating a NPM feed... We've created this feed and published our package (created via "yarn msdyn365 pack") there, then we followed these steps to do the testing:

Creation of a new solution based on the Microsoft's sample solution from GitHub;
Changing the .yarnrc file, including our feed there;
Changing the package.json file, including our package there;
Executing the "yarn" command, a folder with our package was created inside the "node_modules" folder.

BUT, when trying to test our modules locally (https://localhost:4000/), the modules are not being executed:

"k3-compositions 1' threw exception

Error: Module id: k3-compositions 1, type: k3-compositions is not registered"

I also tried to import a package created from this "test solution" into the LCS, but I had the same problem, our modules are not available inside the site builder anymore.

Do you guys have an idea of what we are doing wrong?

Thank you in advance,

Luiz

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LuizVentura 10 on at

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RE: Help with NPM feed and publishing the package as an ISV

Hi Sam,

Thank you for your answer, we tried what you mentioned but we still have the issue.

I will describe below in detail what we've done:

We generated a new package from our solution, using "yarn msdyn365 pack";

We extracted the package, opened it in VS Code, and created a .npmrc with the registry of our feed; (Image below);

We also changed the package.json, inserting a namespace within the "name" field, and changed the "private" field to false; (Also image below)

We uploaded the package to our feed, using the "npm publish" command, and it worked fine.

5. Then, we created a new solution based on the Microsoft's sample solution from GitHub, to simulate the partner/customer solution;

6. We changed the "platform.settings.json" file, as you mentioned; (Image below)

7. We changed the ".yarnc" file; (Also image below)

8. We also changed the "package.json" file, inserting our namespace within the "dependencies" (Also image below)

9. We executed the "yarn" command, and a folder with the name of our namespace was created within the "node_modules" folder, the content of the folder is also in the image below.

10. We generated a package from this solution, using "yarn msdyn365 pack";

11. We uploaded the package in the LCS asset library and also applied the package in our environment;

12. After all this process, we get the following error

I can see the "hello world" module there, so the package has been applied, but our modules are still not recognized.

Best regards,

Luiz
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Sam Jarawan on at

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RE: Help with NPM feed and publishing the package as an ISV

Hi Luiz,

The problem is most likely that your namespace needs to be added to the platform.settings.json file so that SDK can register corresponding modules belonging to the namespace.

Example:

{

"namespaceExtensions" : ["@msdyn365-commerce-modules"]

}

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/commerce/e-commerce-extensibility/platform-settings#namespaceextensions

I hope that helps,

Sam
Diogo_STMonteiro on at

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RE: Help with NPM feed and publishing the package as an ISV

Hi Luiz,

I just saw that you did the same question in the yammer community, let me follow up with Sam.

Thank you!