Google App Engine Deploy Pipe: Private NPM Repository

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I need to deploy a Node.js application to Google App Engine. The application depends on node modules from a private repository. Therefore I'm creating a .npmrc file in the working directory in a first step. "npm install" and "npm run test" work fine there.

The .npmrc file also needs to be uploaded to google cloud storage, which unfortunately does not seem to be the case.

image: node:12.16.1

pipelines: 
  branches: 
    master: 
      - step: 
          name: NPM 
          script: 
            - printf "//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=%s\n" "$NPM_TOKEN" >> .npmrc 
            - npm install 
            - npm run test

      - step: 
          name: Deploy 
          script: 
            - pipe: atlassian/google-app-engine-deploy:0.2.1 
              variables: 
                KEY_FILE: $GCLOUD_KEY_FILE 
                PROJECT: "project-x"

I'm always getting the following error from Google:

Step #1: npm ERR! 404 '@xyz/some-module@1.2.3' is not in the npm registry.

And this happens because the .npmrc file is not available in the current cloud storage bucket.

How can I make sure the .npmrc created in step "NPM" will be uploaded, too?

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Looks like I need to use artifacts. 🙈