Publish a npm package to a S3 Bucket

This package is a helper to publish npm package to a S3 Bucket. This is less convenient than use npm repository but if we want to keep some packages out of the public this is a quick and functionnal workaround usinng only S3 and no database.

Install

# You can install this package globally to avoid installing it for all your privates packages. 
npm install -g publish-pkg-s3

How it works

You should execute the script in a root package directory. The script will list all the directories and files inside the package directory excepted the node_modules directory.

Then it will targz the content of the package and upload it on your S3 bucket. The name of the package and the version are picked into your package.json. If a the same version already exists the script will not upload your package except you ask it to force the upload.

# upload a package
publish-package-s3 publish <bucketName>

# output
# Package: packageName version: 1.0.0 will be published
# Package: packageName version: 1.0.0 published
# URL: https://s3.<region>.amazonaws.com/<bucket>/<package>-<version>.tgz

# upload force a package
publish-package-s3 publish <bucketName> --force

# list already uploaded packages with the same name
publish-package-s3 name <bucketName>

You can use npm link to check that your package work well before upload your package on S3. See npm link.