About GitHub Packages

About GitHub Packages

• About GitHub Packages

Configuring npm for use with GitHub Packages

• Configuring npm for use with GitHub Packages

Authenticating with a personal access token

To authenticate by adding your personal access token to your ~/.npmrc file, edit the ~/.npmrc file for your project to include the following line, replacing TOKEN with your personal access token. Create a new ~/.npmrc file if one doesn’t exist.

//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=TOKEN

To authenticate by logging in to npm, use the npm login command, replacing USERNAME with your GitHub username, TOKEN with your personal access token, and PUBLIC-EMAIL-ADDRESS with your email address.

$ npm login --registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com
> Username: USERNAME
> Password: TOKEN
> Email: PUBLIC-EMAIL-ADDRESS

It stores the token in the file ~/.npmrc

If you are using a GitHub Actions workflow, you can use a GITHUB_TOKEN to publish and consume packages in GitHub Packages without needing to store and manage a personal access token. For more information, see:

• Authenticating with the GITHUB_TOKEN

Publishing a Package

By default, GitHub Packages publishes a package in the GitHub repository you specify in the name field of the package.json file. For example, you would publish a package named

"name": "@my-org/test"

to the

my-org/test GitHub repository.

You can add a summary for the package listing page by including a README.md file in your package directory. For more information, see

• “Working with package.json” and
• “How to create Node.js Modules”

in the npm documentation.