How to Create and Publish an NPM Package

Publishing a Javascript package to the NPM registry is quite easy, but there are some gotchas and things to know along the way. I'll show creating a super simple package, creating an NPM account, and then publishing a package. Then I'll go over unpublishing packages and how to publish a scoped package and why.

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00:00 - What we'll cover
00:48 - Setting up the package project
02:51 - Creating an NPM account
04:38 - Disclaimer about following along
05:54 - Trying to publish without verified email
06:28 - Successful publish of unscoped package
07:21 - Installing our new package in a new project
08:33 - Aside about the ease of publishing packages
09:22 - Why I set the version to 0.1.0
10:00 - Unpublishing then publishing a scoped package
12:57 - Wrap-up

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[harshavardhannakkina]

so once we publish it to npm, we can install it with npm, yarn, pnpm etc. right?

[stephenpaulhassall]

This was very good. Thank you good sir.

[sandeep]

Awesome..plz keep it up...very well explained 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👏👏👏

[feridbedelov]

Looking forward to watching semantic versioning tutorial!!

[drewbird]

Hey matey! Just want to say, thanks for the content 👍🏼👍🏼

[jamesbruner]

Great video dude, easy to follow and informative. You love to see it.

[thepopstudio]

The best channel i've ever seen! Do SQL pls if u can, i think it would be very interesting

[bad_ai_engineer]

Unfortunately I am having the problem where my code just doesn't end up in the registry even after a successful publish.