Discussion on "Create an npm package easily in JavaScript/TypeScript"

Tarek Jellali · 2021-05-17T20:06:51.254Z

Hello good people! In this article, we're going to create an npm package step by step. By the end of this article you will be able to: Build your own package Use it on other projects Publish it on npm [Bonus] Publish your TypeScript types with your ...

it takes 5 minutes to push your example into github project and linking it here
building with tsc does not allow you yo use *.css|scss files

Hello there, I'm not sure I understand your first point, the repo is available here and evey step in the guide has the commit id + link to commit reflecting that step.

As for your second point, correct, TSC does not build and bundle scss. I didn't mention CSS/SCSS bundling for a package to keep things really simple. If you think I need to address it, I can add a bonus section for sure 😊 .

Tarek Jellali

I ment it would be so much easier to understand what is going on if we could see full-code example (GitHub repo).
Any React component package contains some sort of styling - as far as I'm concerned it gets very messy when you're trying to add styles to TSC

Wade Wilson I get what you mean. This is more a general guide to help someone new to the world of npm packages to get started.

In any case I like what you're suggesting, I think this deserves a part 2 with something more advanced 😃 !

Great article Tarek, to be honest, I haven't published a package yet so this will help me with my next project

Thanks a lot!

Very happy you liked it, Rodrigo! I hope it'll come helpful to you yes! 🙌

Awesome already bookmarked it this will come in useful later.

Happy to read that, thank you so much 🙌 !

That was a really great article Tarek Jellali. As someone who has never self-published a package before I was curious to know how it was done and this explained things really well!

Thanks you so much Kieran! So happy you liked it 😀 !

Awesome Article!, I did code along until it was time to deploy to npm. I didn't want to do that.

Thanks for sharing though, it's good knowing how packages are made.

Very glad you've enjoyed it!

Honestly, my goal was to demystify how npm packages are made. I used to think that it was complicated and cumbersome. All the articles I found were talking about tools and other things that can make beginners just give up.

I glad you took a different approach then 😊Tarek Jellali

I found the article easy to follow along.

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