The Ins-and-Outs of Publishing a Module to npm

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Shows how to create, test, build and publish a real npm package called transleg using npm init, mocha, Babel and npm scripts, automating build with a prepublish hook and excluding source with .npmignore. Demonstrates versioning with npm version, explains the surprising 1% rule (≈84,000 publishers vs ~4.5M users), and runs through npm login and the single command npm publish to get a working module onto the registry.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:41How did you get permission to publish a module on npm?
3. 5:59Let's make a little module for working with rectangles.
4. 6:30Option A: Scoped modules.
5. 18:19preinstall prestart
6. 19:09npm run sandwich

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