Creating NPM packages: The Complete Guide

Create and publish your own tree-shakable NPM packages and learn this must-have skill every web developer should acquire

What you'll learn
Learn all basic & advanced configurations every NPM package creator must know
Implement tree shakable packages (dive deep and truely understand this concept)
Publish your NPM package with ease using automated CI tools
Ship your package with vaious module systems
Handle parallel development of pre-release versions of your package while maintainning stable versions
Create your package with Typescript support

Requirements
Basic knowledge of Javascript

Description
NPM packages are the most popular and powerful way today for making your code reusable and share it between various projects. But as most of us are starting to code for the web by developing web applications, when the time comes and we need to create and publish our own first NPM package, we find ourselfs guessing what are the best practices we should followThat's what happened to me a few years ago when I was required to create my first NPM package. I tried to search for some detailed tutorial or an in-depth course to guide me, but pretty soon I realized such source doesn't really exist. So I started gathering the knowledge through endless blog posts, short tutorials, friends, colleagues and mainly a lot of exploring and experimenting I did on my own.Years later, I'm really happy to publish this course and share the knowledge I accumulated during all this time. One of the main purposes of doing so, is to make your journey with NPM packages much easier and pleasant. So I hope you will enjoy this ride of learning and start implementing your own amazing NPM packagesThis course will start from the basic stuff regarding NPM packages and then continue to the most advanced topics it involvesYou will learn the basic structure of an NPM package, all the configurations involved in creating it, and of course the various properties that the package json file should include. We will experiment with our newly created package, ship it with different module systems, develop it with full typescript support and see the differences between consuming it through frontend and backend applications. We will then learn how we can automate the process of versioning and publishing the package, with some of the most popular and exciting CI tools. Pre-releases will also be on the menu, and we will learn some techniques that will enable us to publish pre-release versions while maintaining our current stable version. We will test various ways of building our packages, and of course, we will take a deep dive into the interesting topic of tree shaking, where we will see live examples and reveal all the behind the scenes of it.After this course you will feel confident regarding your ability to create NPM packages with best practices, and you will have the tools to debug the behavior of your package and adjust its configurations according to your needsI hope you will have a great experience during our time together, and wish you will soon start to implement your own creative ideas for your popular, brand-new, NPM package

Who this course is for:
All levels Javascript developers that want to expand their knowledge on NPM packages and create NPM package with best practices