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Nicolas S.Xu
Nicolas S.Xu

Reputation: 14544

NPM publish will copy the all files to NPM server or not?

I am successfully publish a package by following this official tutorial: Does it mean NPM copy all my files to NPM server? Because the command I use is: 

npm publish

No other params.

Whereas in Bower, the command I use is:

bower register raphael.backbone git://github.com/tomasAlabes/backbone.raphael.git

It is clearly the source is git repo, so bower is clearly a registry, not copying the project files.

Question:

"NPM publish " will copy my files to NPM server or not?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 170

Answers (1)

RyanZim
RyanZim

Reputation: 6994

npm publish compresses your current working directory into a tarball and uploads it to the npm registry; so yes, npm publish will copy your files to npm server.

You actually don't have to use git for an npm package, though using it is a good idea to use version control for any software development.

Upvotes: 3

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