node/deps/npm/doc/cli/npm-publish.md

npm-publish(1) -- Publish a package

SYNOPSIS

npm publish <tarball> [--tag <tag>]
npm publish <folder> [--tag <tag>]

DESCRIPTION

Publishes a package to the registry so that it can be installed by name.

• <folder>: A folder containing a package.json file

• <tarball>: A url or file path to a gzipped tar archive containing a single folder with a package.json file inside.

• [--tag <tag>] Registers the published package with the given tag, such that npm install <name>@<tag> will install this version. By default, npm publish updates and npm install installs the latest tag.

Fails if the package name and version combination already exists in the registry.

Once a package is published with a given name and version, that specific name and version combination can never be used again, even if it is removed with npm-unpublish(1).

SEE ALSO

• npm-registry(7)
• npm-adduser(1)
• npm-owner(1)
• npm-deprecate(1)
• npm-tag(1)