How to check NPM package availability

After hours of refactoring my code, renaming imports, demo site and repo, I realized I wasn’t allowed to publish that name on NPM. I did look for it and it showed up as non existant. It turns out there’re some package moniker rules I was not aware of.

In short, you aren’t allowed to publish if your package name differs by punctuation with an existing package. That is, you can’t use mydialogs if there’s another package named my-dialogs already.

You can then use the CLI name-exists to check for real NPM name availability:

npx name-exists <package-name>

It uses an offline snapshot of all the package names in the registry and compare your package name against them all.