---
title: "Best practices for creating a modern npm package"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/best-practices-for-creating-a-modern-npm-package-umeookn-e
source_url: https://snyk.io/blog/best-practices-create-modern-npm-package/
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2022-09-21T05:55:34.691Z
updated: 2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z
tags: ["security", "javascript", "github", "typescript", "github-actions", "npm"]
reading_time: 21
upvotes: 107
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# Best practices for creating a modern npm package

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 21 min read · 107 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

You will first learn how to create an npm package, so you can get familiar with building and publishing a package. Then you’ll learn what’s involved with making a more robust and production-ready package by setting up a test framework, a continuous integration and deployment pipeline, security checks, and automated semantic npm publish.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://snyk.io/blog/best-practices-create-modern-npm-package/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@mikevalstar** · 2 upvotes

> Some great advice in here, definitely going to update my npm modules with some of it.
>
> I would also recommend people add commit signing as something they do. esp as not github supports ssh signing which is much easier.

**@muathye** · 1 upvotes

> I really need this kinka artciles

**@heyshubhi** · 0 upvotes

> great share

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