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layout: ~/layouts/Main.astro
title: Publish a Component to NPM
---
Built a great Astro component? **Publish it to [npm!](https://npmjs.com/)**
Once published to npm, Astro components can be installed and used in your project like any other npm package. npm is a great way to share Astro components across projects within your team, your company, or the entire world.
## Basic NPM Package Setup
Here's an example package that we'd like to publish to npm. It includes two Astro components and a few other files.
```
/my-components-package/
├── package.json
├── index.js
├── Capitalize.astro
└── Bold.astro
```
### `package.json`
Your package manifest. This includes information about your package such as name, description, any dependencies, and other important metadata. If you don't know what the `package.json` file is, we highly recommend you to have a quick read on [the npm documentation](https://docs.npmjs.com/creating-a-package-json-file).
We recommend that you define an [exports entry](https://nodejs.org/api/packages.html) for your `index.js` package entrypoint like so:
```json
{
"name": "@example/my-components",
"version": "0.0.1",
"exports": "./index.js"
}
```
### `index.js`
`index.js` is your package entrypoint, which is the file that gets loaded when someone imports your package by name. Having a JavaScript file as your package entrypoint will let you export multiple components and have better control over their exported component names.
```js
export { default as Capitalize } from './Capitalize.astro';
export { default as Bold } from './Bold.astro';
```
### Publishing
Once you have your package ready, you can publish it to npm by running the command `npm publish`. If that fails, make sure that you've logged in via `npm login` and that your package.json is correct.
Once published, anyone will be able to install your components and then import them like so:
```astro
---
import { Bold, Capitalize } from '@example/my-components';
---
```
## Advanced
We recommend a single `index.js` package entrypoint because this is what most users are familar with. However, in some rare scenarios you may want to have your users import each `.astro` component directly, in the same manner that you import `.astro` files in your own project.
```astro
---
import Capitalize from '@example/my-components/Capitalize.astro';
---
```
This is a less common scenario, and we only recommend it if you have good reason. Because Astro is completely rendered at build-time, there are no client-side performance concerns to our default recommendation to export your components from a single `index.js` file.
To support importing by file within your package, add each file to your **package.json** `exports` map:
```diff
{
"name": "@example/my-components",
"version": "1.0.0",
"exports": {
- ".": "./index.js",
+ "./Bold.astro": "./Bold.astro",
+ "./Capitalize.astro": "./Capitalize.astro"
}
}
```iter
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