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<h1><a href="../api/npm-publish.html">npm-publish</a></h1> <p>Publish a package</p>

<h2 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h2>

<pre><code>npm.commands.publish([packages,] callback)</code></pre>

<h2 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h2>

<p>Publishes a package to the registry so that it can be installed by name.
Possible values in the &#39;packages&#39; array are:</p>

<ul><li><p><code>&lt;folder&gt;</code>:
A folder containing a package.json file</p></li><li><p><code>&lt;tarball&gt;</code>:
A url or file path to a gzipped tar archive containing a single folder
with a package.json file inside.</p></li></ul>

<p>If the package array is empty, npm will try to publish something in the
current working directory.</p>

<p>This command could fails if one of the packages specified already exists in
the registry.  Overwrites when the &quot;force&quot; environment variable is set.</p>

<h2 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h2>

<ul><li><a href="../misc/npm-registry.html">npm-registry(7)</a></li><li><a href="../cli/npm-adduser.html">npm-adduser(1)</a></li><li><a href="../api/npm-owner.html">npm-owner(3)</a></li></ul>
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<p id="footer">npm-publish &mdash; npm@1.3.21</p>
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