This issue is a follow up of JENKINS-30615.

Maven plugin allows to define a global default settings file (thanks to config-file-plugin) like this:

Thanks to this, the pipeline Maven step can be simply defined as:

withMaven(){/*...*/} 

This simple block will automatically use the global settings file.

It would be great if nodejs-plugin provided the same feature for .npmrc files provided by config-file-plugin.

It would allow in this case to replace this:

nodejs(configId: 'default-global-config') {/*...*/}

With:

 nodejs() {/*...*/}