Getting 404 when attempting to publish new package to NPM

Question

I just created a new package: https://github.com/supericium/pli

I\'m now trying to publish it to NPM for the first time like this:

    ole@MKI:~/Sand         


        

Answer 1

Came across this same error, and my issue was that the package was somehow set to "Read" access only. So I have to go to the NPM and update the package to "Read/Write" access:

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Answer 2

Once you successfully publish the package you may experience when you try to npm install:

npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found: @xxx/yyy@latest

or something similar, regardless if you npm publish was successful. In this case make sure your {main: 'file.js'} in packages.json is there.

Ideally, you can call it index.js if you wish to leech directly from the package so you don't get things like import * from '@xxx/yyy/file'.

Answer 3

You could also get this error when you change your password to NPM but you do not logout/login via your CLI. Using npm logout and then npm login worked for me.

Answer 4

in my case I had to verify the email address. even when npm whoami was telling me I was logged in fine.

Answer 5

In my case, I was missing the repository field in the package.json of my new package that I was trying to publish.

"repository": "git://github.com/your-org/your-repo-name.git"

https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#repository

Answer 6

You need to have registered "supericium" (npm adduser) as a username at the registry and be logged in to publish under that scope.

• https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/publishing-npm-packages
• https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/scoped-packages