Publishing an Org Scoped Package

One of the great benefits of using an Organization is that you can publish packages, publicly or privately, under a shared namespace, called the Organization scope. This is similar to a user namespace, or User scope, however an Organization scope makes it much easier to manage package access for multiple packages and multiple users.

This page will teach you how to publish an Organization scoped package, both publicly and privately. This page will also teach you how to configure you npm so that it automatically creates packages with your Organization scope.

Don't forget that all Members of an Organization are immediately added to a Developers team that automatically has Read/Write access to all packages published under an Organization scope. (Learn more about the Developers Team)

Creating a New Scoped Package

To create a new scoped package for your Organization scope, create a directory with the name of the package you would like to create. Navigate into that directory and use this command:

npm init --scope=<org_scope>

To verify that this worked, open the generated package.json with an editor of your choice. You should see that the name of the package will be @org_scope/<pkg_name>.

Publishing a Private Scoped Package

By default, npm publish will publish a scoped package as private. Therefore, to privately publish a scoped package as private, type:

npm publish

Learn more about the CLI publish command.

You can verify that this worked by going to your npm profile or your Organization's profile and look at the packages list. You should see your newly published package listed there. You will know it is private because there will be a small lock icon next to the package name.

Publishing a Public Scoped Package

By default all scoped packages are published privately. To publish a scoped package publicly, pass the access flag with the value public:

npm publish --access public

Learn more about the CLI publish command.

You can verify that this worked by going to your npm profile or your Organization's profile and look at the packages list. You should see your newly published package listed there. You will know it is public because there will not be a small lock icon next to the package name.

You can doubly verify this by opening a private browser tab and viewing your npm profile or your Organization's profile. The package should be present on both package listings.