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6 npm-publish - Publish a package
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9 npm publish [<tarball>|<folder>] [--tag <tag>] [--access <public|restricted>] [--otp otpcode] [--dry-run]
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11 Publishes '.' if no argument supplied
12 Sets tag 'latest' if no --tag specified
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15 Publishes a package to the registry so that it can be installed by
16 name. All files in the package directory are included if no local .git‐
17 ignore or .npmignore file exists. If both files exist and a file is
18 ignored by .gitignore but not by .npmignore then it will be included.
19 See npm help 7 npm-developers for full details on what's included in
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22 By default npm will publish to the public registry. This can be over‐
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24 npm-scope in the name (see npm help 5 package.json).
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26 · <folder>: A folder containing a package.json file
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28 · <tarball>: A url or file path to a gzipped tar archive containing a
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31 · [--tag <tag>] Registers the published package with the given tag,
32 such that npm install <name>@<tag> will install this version. By
33 default, npm publish updates and npm install installs the latest tag.
34 See npm help npm-dist-tag for details about tags.
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36 · [--access <public|restricted>] Tells the registry whether this pack‐
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38 scoped packages, which default to restricted. If you don't have a
39 paid account, you must publish with --access public to publish scoped
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42 · [--otp <otpcode>] If you have two-factor authentication enabled in
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47 · [--dry-run] As of npm@6, does everything publish would do except
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59 As of npm@5, both a sha1sum and an integrity field with a sha512sum of
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64 Similar to --dry-run see npm help npm-pack, which figures out the files
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