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NAME
npm-pack - Create a tarball from a package
Synopsis
npm pack [[<@scope>/]<pkg>...] [--dry-run] [--json]
Configuration
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dry-run
• Default: false
• Type: Boolean
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. <!--
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json
• Default: false
• Type: Boolean
Whether or not to output JSON data, rather than the normal output.
• In npm pkg set it enables parsing set values with JSON.parse() before saving them to your package.json.
Not supported by all npm commands. <!-- automatically generated, do not edit manually --> <!-- see
lib/utils/config/definitions.js -->
pack-destination
• Default: "."
• Type: String
Directory in which npm pack will save tarballs. <!-- automatically generated, do not edit manually -->
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workspace
• Default:
• Type: String (can be set multiple times)
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:
• Workspace names
• Path to a workspace directory
• Path to a parent workspace directory (will result in selecting all workspaces within that folder)
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. <!-- automatically generated, do not
edit manually --> <!-- see lib/utils/config/definitions.js -->
workspaces
• Default: null
• Type: null or Boolean
Set to true to run the command in the context of all configured workspaces.
Explicitly setting this to false will cause commands like install to ignore workspaces altogether. When
not set explicitly:
• Commands that operate on the node_modules tree (install, update, etc.) will link workspaces into the
node_modules folder. - Commands that do other things (test, exec, publish, etc.) will operate on the
root project, unless one or more workspaces are specified in the workspace config.
This value is not exported to the environment for child processes. <!-- automatically generated, do not
edit manually --> <!-- see lib/utils/config/definitions.js -->
include-workspace-root
• Default: false
• Type: Boolean
Include the workspace root when workspaces are enabled for a command.
When false, specifying individual workspaces via the workspace config, or all workspaces via the
workspaces flag, will cause npm to operate only on the specified workspaces, and not on the root project.
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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.
See Also
• npm-packlist package http://npm.im/npm-packlist
• npm help cache
• npm help publish
• npm help config
• npm help npmrc
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