npm-pack

Create a tarball from a package

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Synopsis

npm pack [[<@scope>/]<pkg>...] [--dry-run] [--json]

Configuration

dry-run

Indicates that you don’t want npm to make any changes and that it should only report what it would have done. This can be passed into any of the commands that modify your local installation, eg, install, update, dedupe, uninstall, as well as pack and publish.

Note: This is NOT honored by other network related commands, eg dist-tags, owner, etc.

json

Whether or not to output JSON data, rather than the normal output.

Not supported by all npm commands.

pack-destination

Directory in which npm pack will save tarballs.

workspace

Enable running a command in the context of the configured workspaces of the current project while filtering by running only the workspaces defined by this configuration option.

Valid values for the workspace config are either:

When set for the npm init command, this may be set to the folder of a workspace which does not yet exist, to create the folder and set it up as a brand new workspace within the project.

This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.

workspaces

Enable running a command in the context of all the configured workspaces.

This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.

Description

For anything that’s installable (that is, a package folder, tarball, tarball url, git url, name@tag, name@version, name, or scoped name), this command will fetch it to the cache, copy the tarball to the current working directory as <name>-<version>.tgz, and then write the filenames out to stdout.

If the same package is specified multiple times, then the file will be overwritten the second time.

If no arguments are supplied, then npm packs the current package folder.

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