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Creating your first npm package

Dan Vega on February 12, 2019

This weekend I started working on my first ever npm package. I can't believe for how long I have been writing code that I never bothered to create ...
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Sung M. Kim

This is an article I wish I had read before struggling so long to publish an NPM package 👍

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Dan Vega

Aww thank you for the kind words :)

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Jake Varness

Totes gonna use wrap-with-poo in my next package.

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Juan F Gonzalez

As always you bringing in the real value Dan, thanks a lot for this! Been wanting to do this for quite some time but it seemed so daunting

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Dan Vega

You are too kind Juan. Thank you, my friend :) It does seem pretty overwhelming until you realize it isn't :)

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GifCo

Ok this is great and all but it's 2019 and your example would be most suitable for front end use so why would you NOT even mention that thia should be published as an ESM not common.js. or ideally both.

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Dan Vega

Great questions. I just thought this was a good starting point. It's hard to talk about something new and not include everything the reader might need. I thought I would keep this simple and stick to the basics but I do appreciate your feedback. Thank you, Giff.

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Chinmay Joshi

Timing of your blog couldn't be better. I'm struggling with some problems, and going to refer this to solve the issues.

Thanks!!!

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Dan Vega

Great to hear. Let me know if you run into any issues, I am always looking for something to write about.

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Mert Simsek • Edited

Thank you for article, that's a spirit :)

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Feralamillo

Great tutorial!! I followed and have my first npm package live: npmjs.com/package/check-osaurus

thank you very much for the tips. I wonder if there is a better way to connect directly from github instead of having to do it manually.

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Avinashd

Hi, thank you for simplification example on publishing our own package to npm.

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Craig Wayne

Thank you Dan!

Been meaning to actually start packaging our angular components into independent npm packages.

Didn't know where to start! So thank you so much for this 🥳

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Anton Reshetov

It is very strange to start with version 0.0.1, that is, with fix bug

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Dan Vega

Why is it strange? I am saying that this is the very first release of my plugin. It has some work to do before I consider it a stable 1.0 release.

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Anton Reshetov

Because it is incorrect to start versioning from the version which is intended for a fix of any bug
semver.org/#how-should-i-deal-with...

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Dan Vega

Oh, I thought it was at 0.1.0. Yes, I would agree with that. Will update, thank you!

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Apol0x

Thank you so much for the post,I thought a lot of times inform myself about this, and you explain it very clear

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Dan Vega

Thank you :)

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panthablack

Thanks for this - saved me loads of time and nudged me to publish my first package! Nice one.

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horiyomi

Thanks, this is really helpful

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Keith Burgie

Made an account here just to say thanks! This was very helpful.

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Lupe 🇧🇴

Amazing!

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💚🦀A Nice Guy ;) (#BLM)🦀💚 #ReplGang

You should include /types

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Vikas Magar

Hey, thanks for this awesome Tut. Keep writing :)

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Marco Chavez

Just wanted to thank you! I was able to write my first npm package because of this!

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Monica Macomber

I’ll need to do this soon at work, saving the article for reference 🙏 thanks!

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Strahinja Laktovic

Thanks for the article Dan, really well written and comprehensive. I look forward to reading your sequel about adding testing to the package !

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pedrohenriquebr

I read it before I published my "@pedrobr/autonomous" package! thank you man !

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John Peters

Thanks Dan Vega!

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Moya Richards

nice tutorial

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Saeed Hassani Borzadaran

Thanks :)

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rrakso • Edited

I've just downloaded verdaccio.org/ so I can push my own packages to private online registry! <3