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Shelley-ben
Aug 26, 2025

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Answered by Sajid-tech Aug 26, 2025

First Steps to Create an NPM Package

# First Steps to Create an NPM Package 📦✨

## 🌱 Getting Started

1. **Initialize your package**
   ```bash
   npm init

(Follow prompts or use npm init -y for defaults)

  1. Create essential files
    • index.js (main entry point)
    • README.md (documentation)
    • package.json (configuration)

📦 Package.json Essentials

{
  "name": "your-package-name",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["your", "keywords"],
  "dependencies": {},
  "devDependencies": {}
}

🛠 Development Steps

  1. Write your code in index.js

    module.exports = {
  yourFunction: () => "Hello from your package! 👋"
};

  2. Test locally using npm link

  3. Add tests (create a t…

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