Publishing a NPM Package Automatically with GitHub Actions

That's one is mostly for my future reference, but I hope it’s useful to others too. It’s interesting how different this feels compared to when I started this writing journey three years ago. Today, I can easily search my ChatGPT chat history for solutions. Still, I sometimes feel that relying too much on AI makes me lazier and less focused. Writing forces me to focus, something social media endless scrolling and asking AI can take away. Before this turns into a philosophical discussion on whether AI will take our jobs, I’ll stick to documenting how I publish an NPM package automatically using GitHub Actions. Even though AI can now generate .yml workflows almost instantly, I still find writing them myself worthwhile because: It helps me internalize the knowledge Understanding what you’re doing is essential, relying blindly on generated code doesn’t help long-term. Step 1 – Have a Package to Publish You need a valid Node.js package to publish to NPM. If you don’t have one yet: Create a p