Deploying a module to npm
Now that we've created a module, we can share it with the rest of the world using the same integrated tool that we retrieve modules with: npm.
Getting ready
Before we can deploy to npm we need to make a package.json file, so let's do that for our module. In mp3dat, we'll create package.json and add the following code:
{
"author": "David Mark Clements <contact@davidmarkclements.com> (http://davidmarkclements.com)",
"name": "mp3dat",
"description": "A simple MP3 parser that returns stat infos in a similar style to fs.stat for MP3 files or streams. (MPEG-1 compatible only)",
"version": "0.0.1",
"homepage": "http://nodecookbook.com/mp3dat",
"repository": {
"type": "git",
"url": "git://github.com/davidmarkclements/mp3dat.git"
},
"main": "./lib/index.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "node test"
},
"engines": {
"node": "~0.6.13"
},
"dependencies": {},
"devDependencies": {}
}
We can of course insert our own name and the name of the package. Another way to create a package...
