Background

Our team is currently using Codebuild/codepipeline for CI/CD. We are looking to speed-up CI/CD run-times by caching NPM downloads via CodeArtifact. We're not looking to make use of any CodeBuild caching solutions e.g. local cache as in the future we will be moving our CI/CD to different toolchain. However, we will still need a caching layer for our dependencies.

Use Case

We want to use CodeArtifact as the caching layer for our NPM dependencies (another option could be JFrog). However, we won't be pushing any artifacts to CodeArtifact, just simply downloading publicly available dependencies from the NPM registry via CodeArtifact leveraging the caching capabilities of CodeArtifact.

Question

Is our use-case of simply using CodeArtifact as a NPM caching layer appropriate and usable across different CI/CD solutions? For example, if it will work with CodeBuild today, will it work equally as well with BitBucket pipelines?