Should work for npm run prepublish

[iclanzan]

Right now in-publish returns false if ran from npm run prepublish. I think it should return true.

[sebastienbarre]

and probably from npm pack as well, since it triggers prepublish too. Granted, you would think npm pack would run prepack, and that you could use it to run the same code as prepublish does, but prepack is not triggered...

[iarna]

@iclanzan: Your suggestion makes sense to me.
@sebastienbarre: Hmm, npm cache add too in that case. In so far as this is "not on install".

[iarna]

@sebastienbarre So, things like prepublish and publish and postpublish in your package.json are something we call "lifecycle scripts". These are triggered by npm when its doing various tasks– not by specific command calls but by internal machinery being called. There's no pack lifecycle– it does very indirectly run the prepublish lifecycle, though there are other ways of hitting this code path. (npm pack is implemented as npm cache add . followed by copying the tarball out of the cache. Adding a local directory to the cache results in its prepublish being called prior to adding it, as you're essentially "publishing" it to your cache.)

[sebastienbarre]

Thanks for the clarification @iarna