Unauthorized response from GitHub API on Appveyor

Question

We just started with a new project and trying to get CI working via Appveyor. It is an Aurelia web application so we need jspm on the build server.

Answer 1

It is best to take this token from jspm registry export github after configuring the credentials locally in order to use the exact same algorithm as jspm instead of doing a manual encoding.

If you really want manual encoding, the auth token actually takes the value of new Buffer(encodeURIComponent(username) + ':' + encodeURIComponent(password)).toString('base64').

Answer 2

After contact with the Appveyor team we figured oud that the node version was the problem. Installing the stable version of Node works like a charm:

ps: Install-Product node stable