Publish a prerelease package to NPM

npm-prerelease.md

• Update package.json, set version to a prerelease version, e.g. 2.0.0-rc1, 3.1.5-rc4, ...
• Run npm pack to create package
• Run npm publish <package>.tgz --tag next to publish the package under the next tag
• Run npm install --save package@next to install prerelease package

@schmich Why you have used 'rc' ? Can I use anything other like 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.1, 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.2, 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.3 .....

@LalitKushwah rc stands for "release candidate". This is a standard convention. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41307500/what-does-the-rc-in-a-npm-package-version-structure

Great tip, thanks @schmich!

With yarn you can also do in one command:

yarn publish --tag next

If you want to publish a public package, do:

yarn publish --access public --tag next

Now you can also do this with npm (v9.4.1 at the time of posting this):

npm publish --tag next