Shows the world the steps to go to get proud to have your own npm install nodedemoapp

1. Create a new project on https://github.com/new

2. Clone your new repository by downloading/unzip or git clone https://github.com/yourGithubUserName/repositoryName.git

3. Create a NPM Account either by npm adduser or at https://npmjs.org/signup

4. login by npm login

5. Within your local repository: create a package.json (you can use the npm init command what walks you through)

6. Create a server.js including the planed module

 exports.hello = function(who){
		console.log('Hello '+who);
	};

7. commit it to your repository by git add *, git commit -m "your comment" and git push origin master

8. where your package.json is located execute npm publish

If you see +nodedemoapp you have done well :-)

9. If you like to change the readme on npmjs.com, you need to change the version in package.json, git commit -m "...", git push origin master and run npm publish

If you see e.g. + nodedemoapp@1.0.1 you have done well :-)

To use your first own node module you simple create a test.js

var demo = require('nodedemoapp');
demo.hello('GitHub');

Don't forget to install the module before executing node test.js

npm install nodedemoapp

Or you could add a dependancy to your package.json

"dependencies": {
    "nodedemoapp": "0.0.3"
}

and install your app by npm install within your directory

To test whether the module works itself you can download the archive, extract the zip and execute the following with the created folder:

npm test

Because of the scripts part within package.json the bash script test will be executed

"scripts": {
    "test": "for f in tests/*; do echo \"$f\"; node \"$f\"; done; echo 'Test state is OK'; exit 0"
  },

In our example test case it executes code of tests/requireModueTest.js

var mod = require('../server.js');
try {
	mod.hello('Testing User - Method exists (Test successful)');
}
catch (err){
	console.log('something doesn\'t work well (Test failed)');
}

It is recommended to show badges and graphs about activities and state of the progress behind the module or library. If you like to have badges and shields in the same fitting size you can go to http://shields.io/ or use their new tool.

A collection of badges you can find here.

Professionals are working with (agile) project management frameworks. So you also could use scrum directly within your GitHub by Waffle.io and show an issue based chart.

Note: It would be a good idea to add an extra repository for things are not issues maybe

Badges like came from Waffle.io same as project metrics based on issue labels (what can be added by your individual needs):