How to test an `npm publish` result, without actually publishing to NPM?

Question

One common problem I have, is that sometimes my .npmignore file is too aggressive, and I ignore files that I actually will to include in the NPM tarball.

My question is

Answer 1

I see too many complicated answers, but according to documentation, you just need to install your local package globally (because it will be installed on different directory)

Go to your module root directory and do

npm install . -g