npm Publishing Publish public repository
Example
To publish public repositories with a free npm account, you initially need to publish the module with access of public. One way to do this is to set the config for npm to read in packages.json as follows:
"publishConfig": {
"access": "public"
},
you can also use the flag --access=public with the npm publish command. Otherwise you will get the slightly confusing error message, "you need a paid account to perform this action".
npm publish // if you modified packages.json
or
npm publish --access=public
