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Publish a prerelease package to NPM
  • 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
@LalitKushwah
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LalitKushwah commented Oct 25, 2018

@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 .....

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Valve commented Mar 23, 2020

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

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

npm publish --tag next

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