Publishing npm Packages
Before now, our main focus has been to learn everything about improving and contributing to existing projects, but quite often, this is not everything. Some projects will need to be initiated correctly by you and one part of this process is to decide which packages should actually be reused.
We’ve already learned that reusability in Node.js is primarily gained through the module system, which can be enhanced by third-party dependencies in the form of npm packages. In this chapter, you’ll learn how you can publish npm packages yourself. This way, a functionality implemented once can be shared among the team working on the same project or with anyone.
To achieve our goal in this chapter, first, we’ll set up a simple library to serve our case well. Then, we publish this library to the official npm registry in a way that makes the code available to any Node.js developer. If you want to keep your library a bit less exposed, then the following...
