JavaScript: Tips and Tricks to Programming Code with Javascript (JavaScript Computer Programming, #2) by Charlie Masterson

Author:Charlie Masterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: javascript for beginners, javascript, javascript the definitive guide, javascript advanced, javascript programming, javascript and jquery, javascript the good parts
Publisher: Charlie Masterson
Published: 2016-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

Publishing to Common Repositories

npm

Most programming languages are equipped with package managers or they at least have a third party package manager that enables users to pull in specific libraries for that specific programming language. For example, PHP’s manager is Composer and Ruby on Rails is RubyGems. For a standalone JavaScript engine such as Node.js you have npm. By default, your npm package will be available publicly. But you also have the option of publishing the following:

- private packages

- set up a private registry

- completely avoid publishing

However, should you decide to publish your package, then you need the package.json file. You can do this manually or use an interactive wizard for this. To begin this wizard, start by typing:

npm init

The version property should match your git tag. Include the README.md file as well. Just like GitHub, npm uses that for the page presenting your package.

Once done, publish your package by typing:

npm publish

That’s it! You have successfully published your npm package.

Bower

Another useful package manager called Bower surfaced a few years ago. This is a package manager designed for the web. Here, you can find all major front-end asserts. The only thing is, your library will benefit from using Bower to publish your package is if your library set up to be browser-compatible.

npm packages are primarily for JavaScript and many front-end packages still use npm but Bower is still fundamentally popular so go ahead and publish using Bower too.

To generate a bower.json file, type:

bower init

Just like npm init, the instructions are self-explanatory. Finally, to publish your package:

bower register awesomelib https://github.com/you/awesomelib

Now you have your library available for everyone to use in their Node projects or on the web!

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