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Documented steps
cd into the package folder whose package.json you want to pack, or pass a package-spec argument (folder, tarball URL, git URL, name@version, scoped name).
Run `npm pack` with no arguments to pack the current package folder.
npm fetches the package to its cache, copies the resulting tarball to the current working directory as <name>-<version>.tgz, and writes the filenames to stdout.
To pack a specific package from the registry: `npm pack lodash@4.17.21`.
Pass `--pack-destination <dir>` to save the tarball into a specific directory instead of the current one.
Inspect the produced .tgz file; it contains only the files that would be installed for that package.
Known gotchas
If the same package is specified multiple times, the tarball file is overwritten the second time.
`npm pack` respects the files field, .npmignore, and always-included files like package.json and README; it never includes symbolic links.
The tarball filename follows <name>-<version>.tgz using the version in package.json.
Scoped packages produce tarballs with the scope stripped/encoded in the filename, e.g. @scope/pkg -> scope-pkg-1.0.0.tgz.
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