About public packages

As an npm user or organization member, you can create and publish public packages that anyone can download and use in their own projects.

• Unscoped public packages exist in the global public registry namespace and can be referenced in a package.json file with the package name alone: package-name.
• Scoped public packages belong to a user or organization and must be preceded by the user or organization name when included as a dependency in a package.json file:
  • @username/package-name
  • @org-name/package-name

Next steps

• "Creating and publishing scoped public packages"
• "Creating and publishing unscoped public packages"
• "Using npm packages in your projects"