Publishing NPM packages to the Github Registry

Meta

I want to:

Publish an NPM package to Github package registry as it allows private packages on the free plan.

I am writing this because:

Most tutorials I found were way too long.

Data

Update your package.json

Package scope should be same as your username.

{
  "name": "@ramitmittal/foo",
  "version": "1.0.0",
}

Generate a personal access token

This token should have the write:packages permission. New personal access token

Update your .npmrc

This .npmrc file can either be in the same folder as the package.json file or in the $HOME directory.

//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN}
@ramitmittal:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com

Publish

npm publish