.TH "NPM\-PUBLISH" "1" "May 2017" "" ""
.SH "NAME"
\fBnpm-publish\fR \- Publish a package
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
npm publish [<tarball>|<folder>] [\-\-tag <tag>] [\-\-access <public|restricted>]

Publishes '\.' if no argument supplied
Sets tag 'latest' if no \-\-tag specified
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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Publishes a package to the registry so that it can be installed by name\. All
files in the package directory are included if no local \fB\|\.gitignore\fP or
\fB\|\.npmignore\fP file exists\. If both files exist and a file is ignored by
\fB\|\.gitignore\fP but not by \fB\|\.npmignore\fP then it will be included\.  See
npm help 7 \fBnpm\-developers\fP for full details on what's included in the published
package, as well as details on how the package is built\.
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By default npm will publish to the public registry\. This can be overridden by
specifying a different default registry or using a npm help 7 \fBnpm\-scope\fP in the name
(see npm help 5 \fBpackage\.json\fP)\.
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\fB<folder>\fP:
A folder containing a package\.json file
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\fB<tarball>\fP:
A url or file path to a gzipped tar archive containing a single folder
with a package\.json file inside\.
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\fB[\-\-tag <tag>]\fP
Registers the published package with the given tag, such that \fBnpm install
<name>@<tag>\fP will install this version\.  By default, \fBnpm publish\fP updates
and \fBnpm install\fP installs the \fBlatest\fP tag\. See npm help \fBnpm\-dist\-tag\fP for
details about tags\.
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\fB[\-\-access <public|restricted>]\fP
Tells the registry whether this package should be published as public or
restricted\. Only applies to scoped packages, which default to \fBrestricted\fP\|\.
If you don't have a paid account, you must publish with \fB\-\-access public\fP
to publish scoped packages\.

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.P
Fails if the package name and version combination already exists in
the specified registry\.
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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 help unpublish\.
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For a "dry run" that does everything except actually publishing to the
registry, see npm help \fBnpm\-pack\fP, which figures out the files to be included and
packs them into a tarball to be uploaded to the registry\.
.SH SEE ALSO
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npm help 7 registry
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npm help 7 scope
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npm help adduser
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npm help owner
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npm help deprecate
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npm help dist\-tag
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npm help pack

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