learn-npm-hello v1.0.1

Hello World package for NPM registry

Steps Taken

1. Create account on NPM website or on CLI with npm adduser

• check by hitting https://www.npmjs.org/~<username>

1. Create new module/package
2. npm init to setup the basic package.json information
3. create/test the code
4. Authorize the development machine using npm login
5. Publish to registry with npm publish in the project directory
6. Check http://npmjs.com/package/<package>
7. Finally run npm install <package> to ensure the package is available for use

NPM Package Requirements

Reference NPM doc

• package.json
• name and version in the package.json file

Quick NPM Commands

• npm config ls or npm get
• show the current configuration information pulled from .npmrc
• npm publish
• publish the current directory's package
• npm publish --tag beta
• publish to NPM with the latest tag, so it will not be auto installed
• npm version <patch|minor|major>
• bump the package.json version information
• if executed in GIT repository, it will auto-create a tag as well
• npm pack
• create a package - ZIP - of the project locally
• local install for testing with npm install <zip file name (absolute/related) path>
• npm install <package name>
• npm uninstall <package name>