As a developer I would like documentation for publishing a component to npm

[thescientist13]

Type of Change

• New Feature Request
• Documentation
• Future Spec
• Improvement / Suggestion
• Bug
• Other (please clarify below)

Summary

Some documentation on how to publish a reusable component to npm. Topics to cover:

• files array in package.json (whitelisting what is published)
• npm pack
• how to bundle assets
• good documentation is important!

Use Case

Developers looking to publish reusable components.

Code Sample

N / A

Pros / Cons

No cons, other than the usual risk with documentation that it can get out dated easily.

[thescientist13]

this project from @hutchgrant has been working on some good documentation
https://github.com/hutchgrant/evergreen-web-components

[hutchgrant]

npmjs.org has excellent documentation as well.

Creating a new account
About two factor auth
Configure two factor auth
Logging in to npm
Changing package version
Creating and publishing unscoped packages

I also think docs for publishing multiple components at once via lerna, as described in the link cited in (#47 (comment)) would be helpful.