Hello World package for NPM registry

Steps Taken

1. Create account on NPM website or on CLI with npm adduser
   • check by hitting https://www.npmjs.org/~<username>
2. Create new module/package
   1. npm init to setup the basic package.json information
   2. create/test the code
3. Authorize the development machine using npm login
4. Publish to registry with npm publish in the project directory
5. Check http://npmjs.com/package/<package>
6. Finally run npm install <package> to ensure the package is available for use

NPM Package Requirements

Reference NPM doc

• package.json
• name and version in the package.json file

Quick NPM Commands

• npm config ls or npm get
  • show the current configuration information pulled from .npmrc
• npm publish
  • publish the current directory's package
• npm publish --tag beta
  • publish to NPM with the latest tag, so it will not be auto installed
• npm version <patch|minor|major>
  • bump the package.json version information
  • if executed in GIT repository, it will auto-create a tag as well
• npm pack
  • create a package - ZIP - of the project locally
  • local install for testing with npm install <zip file name (absolute/related) path>
• npm install <package name>
• npm uninstall <package name>