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title: "Publish Packages to NPM with Yeoman"
description: "Using Yeoman’s generator-node to create and publish npm packages. Practical notes and code examples on Publish Packages to."
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publishDate: "2013-11-30T00:00:00.000Z"
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# Publish Packages to NPM with Yeoman

> Using Yeoman’s generator-node to create and publish npm packages. Practical notes and code examples on Publish Packages to.

[Yeoman](http://yeoman.io/) makes creating and maintaining node packages easy with [generator-node](https://github.com/yeoman/generator-node).

## Getting Started

```bash
npm install -g generator-node
mkdir exmp && cd $_
yo node

Answer the prompts and get a complete scaffold:

create lib/exmp.js
create test/exmp_test.js
create .jshintrc
create .gitignore
create .travis.yml
create README.md
create Gruntfile.js
create package.json

## Directory Structure

.
├── Gruntfile.js
├── README.md
├── lib
│   └── exmp.js
├── package.json
└── test
    └── exmp_test.js
```

The Gruntfile's default task is `['jshint', 'nodeunit']` with [nodeunit](https://github.com/caolan/nodeunit) for testing.