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How to Automatically Publish Your NPM Package Using GitHub Actions
- Automating your npm package publishing process with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) ensures that each release passes through a quality gate—your test suite—before publication.
- Manual npm publishing can be time-consuming and error-prone, particularly as your project grows and gains contributors.
- You can control exactly what ends up in the final published package by excluding test files.
- Testing ensures you don’t publish broken code.
- You want to exclude the node_modules.
- While you will run tests during CI, you don’t want the test files included in your published npm package.
- With each new release, a comprehensive series of tests run, package.json is updated with the correct version, and a streamlined package is published to npm—free of unnecessary files like tests.
- Integrating GitHub Actions into your npm publishing workflow establishes a great CI/CD pipeline.
- This approach saves time, reduces human errors, and enhances the reliability of your releases.
- A single GitHub release is now all it takes to ship a fully tested, properly versioned package to the npm registry.
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