publish.yml

# NPM Publish is the name for this action
name: NPM Publish

# This action will publish to NPM on every new release
on:
    release:
        types: [created]

# Job will run on a ubuntu instance
jobs:
    build:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        steps:
            # Checkout the code
            - uses: actions/checkout@v4
            # Setup node with version 20.x and NPM registry url
            - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
              with:
                  node-version: '20.x'
                  registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
            # Run npm install to install project packages
            - run: npm install
            # npm build to build the project
            - run: npm run build
            # publish the files to NPM
            - run: npm publish --access public
              # for publishing, npm need authorization. We add the NPM token to the environment which will take care of authorization to publish to the package
              env:
                  NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.NPM_TOKEN}}