Create/ Publish your first NPM package

1.
Create a dir/folder to contain your packages code.

mkdir firstnpmpackage

2.
change path to dir/folder you just created.

cd firstnpmpackage

3.
Now run ..

npm init

or simply(if you use this command instead npm will not ask you for the details of package and will generate it with defaults)

npm init -y

and fill the required details.

4.
Now create an index.js file in this folder, your folder should look like this

firstnpmpackage
• index.js
• package.json

5.
write some code in index.js

#!/usr/bin/env node
function randomNoGenerator(min, max) {
  if(typeof(max) !== 'number' && typeof(min) !== 'number') {
    min = 0;  max = 1;
  }
 console.log(Math.random() * (max-min)) + min;
}
randomNoGenerator(5,10);

6.
Now let's modify our package.json a bit to make it work using cli.

"bin":{
   "demoproject" : "index.js"
},

just add this thing in your package.json
demoproject is the command you will use to execute your package through cli.
index.js is the file that will be first triggered.

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7.
We are all ready to go ,
but wait wait you will really want to test your package locally before publishing it.

Let's do it first :
run

sudo npm install -g ./

Our package is installed in our local machine now,
Let run it type this in your cli and see the result.

demoproject

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8.
So, now we are done with testing ..
Let's publish it now ,

To make it published you first need to signup on npmjs.com

once you are done signing up!
Run :

npm adduser 

Give your login credentials..

9.
Now we are ready to go ..
open terminal in your root directory..

and Run :

npm publish

Done.....

NOTE : if it gives any error goto package.json and change name of your project any package with same name might be published before...

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my npm account: deep1144

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Comments

[Paweł Kowalski]

Hint: IF you dont need details (or you use defaults) try npm init -y - it will not ask you about anything.

Ie.

devto|⇒ npm init -y
Wrote to /Users/pavel/projects/private/devto/package.json:

{
  "name": "devto",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "dependencies": {
    "jsdom": "^16.2.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {},
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "Paweł Kowalski <[e-mail]>",
  "license": "MIT"
}

Also,

sudo npm install -g ./ - I wouldnt recommend this. npm link was implemented to do this ;)

[Deep]

Yes definitely true i will add this points in post ❤