Renaming a published NPM module

Question

Is there any way to rename an NPM module that has already been published? I want to change the name of my module to more accurately match the API it exposes but would not li

Answer 1

From the documentation:

Registry data is immutable, meaning once published, a package cannot change. We do this for reasons of security and stability of the users who depend on those packages.

However newly published packages - within 72 hours - can be unpublished by running:

npm unpublish  -f

This will remove the package from the NPM registry if it was published less than 72 hours ago. Then you can change your package's name and publish it again.

Caution: You need to wait 24 hours if you try to republish package with the same name