Publishing to NPM for the First Time

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Finally, it’s time to release your first component out into the world

Nowadays, virtually every package is published to the NPM (Node Package Manager) registry. Publishing to NPM means that other developers will be able to install your package using npm install.

While publishing for the first time can feel scary, it’s a straightforward process.

It’s also a risky process, where publishing broken packages, or missing files can happen all too easily. As we get further in the course, we’ll add checks and guardrails to prevent this from happening, we’ll even look at some in this lesson.

Setting up NPM

We have to log in to NPM to publish to the registry. Create a new account If you haven’t logged in before.

Just jump over to NPM signup and create your account.

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