Installing font awesome pro with bun
After recently switching to bun.sh, I was trying to install Font Awesome Pro. It uses a private registry but their docs have not been updated to support non-npm package managers and bun does not yet support .npmrc files.
You can configure a private registry using an organization scope. First, you must get your auth token from your paid Font Awesome account by going to your account page, scrolling down to the Tokens section, and copying the token.
Copy and paste this string, and replace YOUR_TOKEN_HERE with the token you copied above:
[install.scopes]
"@fortawesome" = { token="YOUR_TOKEN_HERE" , url =
"https://npm.fontawesome.com/"}Open the terminal and enter these commands:
touch $HOME/.bunfig.toml
nano $HOME/.bunfig.tomlPaste in the config above with your token and then hit CTRL+X to quit, and Y to save when prompted. Now you should be able to run
bun add @fortawesome/fontawesome-proHow to fix npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules
A friend was running into an error when using node to install a package. When installing the package he was getting the error “npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules”. The fix turned out to be pretty simple and he just needed to take ownership of the node_modules folder.
Open terminal and run this simple snippet to fix the problem:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/lib/node_modules/