Having a plugin published could be your introduction to the world of open source development and collaboration. As a project gains traction in the community and becomes useful to others, you may begin to see contributions being made to the project; contributions such as the fixing of issues and implementing of features that you may or may not have had on your roadmap.
In this recipe, we'll publish the project that we've been creating throughout this chapter, culminating with the project from the Adding documentation for a plugin recipe. Be sure to refer to it and its preceding recipes if you'd like to see how we got to this point.
Before we can publish anything to the node package manager registry, we'll need to register as a user with the package hosting service. This can be done at https://www.npmjs.com/signup.