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<h1><a href="../api/npm-publish.html">npm-publish</a></h1> <p>Publish a package</p>
<h2 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<pre><code>npm.commands.publish([packages,] callback)</code></pre>
<h2 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<p>Publishes a package to the registry so that it can be installed by name.
Possible values in the 'packages' array are:</p>
<ul><li><p><code><folder></code>:
A folder containing a package.json file</p></li><li><p><code><tarball></code>:
A url or file path to a gzipped tar archive containing a single folder
with a package.json file inside.</p></li></ul>
<p>If the package array is empty, npm will try to publish something in the
current working directory.</p>
<p>This command could fails if one of the packages specified already exists in
the registry. Overwrites when the "force" environment variable is set.</p>
<h2 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h2>
<ul><li><a href="../misc/npm-registry.html">npm-registry(7)</a></li><li><a href="../cli/npm-adduser.html">npm-adduser(1)</a></li><li><a href="../api/npm-owner.html">npm-owner(3)</a></li></ul>
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