publish-unscoped-package-to-npm-and-github

Inspired by Dev.to article and this issue

Testing of publishing an unscoped NPM package to Github Package Registry

NPM:

GPR (GitHub Package Registry):

Steps

1. Add publishConfig section to your package.json

"publishConfig": {
   "registry": "https://registry-url"
 }

2. Modify your .github/workflows/deploy.yml file

3. Add NPM_AUTH_TOKEN variable in your Repository > Settings > Secrets > New repository secret button. GITHUB_TOKEN already exists

4. Success :tada:

Usage

From NPM:

npm install publish-unscoped-package-to-npm-and-github

From GPR:

npm install @denisstasyev/publish-unscoped-package-to-npm-and-github

Possibly you will need .npmrc file:

@denisstasyev:registry = https://npm.pkg.github.com

Find out the registry used: npm config get registry

Show complete package manager configuration: npm config ls -l

Workflow file

Some notes here how to understand this workflow file:

• About Github's ENV-vars and EOF
• About Github Action run command

Now this repository contains the simplest example, you need to manually raise the version for publication. For automatic version control you can use some tools like semantic-release (example of usage in Github Action and necessary .releaserc.json file)