The Node Package Manager seems to do wonderful job, it is simple to understand and has really well built up. I have created one simple IMDB scraper, which I want to add into repository so I’ll share my tips step by step.
1. I have already created directory imdb-rscraper, put all the package files in the folder, if you have many files create separate folder lib.
2. Create new file called package.json(touch package.json),this is the file where all the metadata is listed. You could basicaly use this template.
{
"name": "imdb-rscraper",
"author": "No Public Name here",
"homepage": "http://veebdev.wordpress.com/",
"version": "0.0.1",
"description": "Scraping the data from IMDB with JQuery selectors",
"main": "imdb-rscraper.js",
"keywords": [
"imdb",
"scraper"
],
"dependencies" : {
"jsdom": ">= 0.2.12"
},
"repository" : {
"type" : "git",
"url" : ""
}
}
3. Now make symlink the package folder run npm link. Creates link /usr/local/lib/node_modules/imdb-rscraper -> /home/risto/node/imdb-rscraper
4. Create the README file for better understanding even for yourself, give brief overview how to use your library, tool.
5. Before publishing you have to create user in repository npm adduser fill the user fields and the publish npm publish. After the last step you should see something like this. Give feedback if I missed something.
npm http PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/imdb-rscraper npm http 201 https://registry.npmjs.org/imdb-rscraper npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/imdb-rscraper npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/imdb-rscraper npm http PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/imdb-rscraper/0.0.1/-tag/latest npm http 201 https://registry.npmjs.org/imdb-rscraper/0.0.1/-tag/latest npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/imdb-rscraper npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/imdb-rscraper npm http PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/imdb-rscraper/-/imdb-rscraper-0.0.1.tgz/-rev/2-18de2cfa3e62cb38e8b13c84deb5db16 npm http 201 https://registry.npmjs.org/imdb-rscraper/-/imdb-rscraper-0.0.1.tgz/-rev/2-18de2cfa3e62cb38e8b13c84deb5db16 + imdb-rscraper@0.0.1
6. Visit npmjs.org and search for your package with the declared information for each version.
