Publishing

Check how you can publish a global CLI application.

Introduction

In this documentation section we are going to cover how you can publish a global CLI application in NPM registry.

Logging in to NPM

To publish your package on the NPM registry, you need to have an account at NPM. If you don't have an account, visit the NPM sign-up page to create one.

After creating the account, open your terminal and run the following command in the root of your package:

npm login

You will get a prompt to enter your username and password. If login is successful, you should see a message like this:

Logged in as <your-username-here> on https://registry.npmjs.org/.

Publishing

Now that you are authenticated, to publish a package to NPM is very simple, just run the following command:

npm publish --access public

If you have been following along, then congratulations! You just published your first NPM package.

You can visit the NPM website and run a search for your package. You should see your package show up in the search results.