Publish a Node Module – Part #6

This is a six articles series for building and publishing a node module from scratch. You can find all these articles below:

• Code A Node Module – Part #1
• Node Module Testing – Part #2
• Refactoring a Node Module – Part #3
• Node Module Testing – Part #4
• Node Module Naming – Part #5
• Publish a Node Module – Part #6

I have successfully implemented everything I needed in my node module. Now it is time to publish it. So without any further ado, let's jump right in!

#Publishing cli-alerts Node Module

The first thing I am going to do is commit my node module to GitHub. For that, I am going to run the following commands one by one.

#adding everything to local git repo
git add .
#staging all files
git commit -m "first version"
#pushing to GitHub
git push

Now the next thing I need to do is launch a version of cli-alerts. I have to launch a major version. For this, I am going to run the following command inside my project terminal.

npm version major -m "🚀 RELEASE: 1.0.0"

I am going to create a readme.md file and write all the required documentation. And finally, I am going to run the following command in the terminal to publish this module on npmjs:

npm publish

#Wrapping Up

In these past five articles, I showed you how easy it is to write a node module. And in this piece, I published it so anyone can use it. Now go ahead and write some useful node modules so other developers like me can also use them in their projects.