If you maintain more than one npm package in a single repository, you've probably felt the pain of release day. Bumping versions manually, publishing in the right order, hoping you didn't forget a step. Multiply that by four packages and it becomes a real problem.
This article is about solving that problem. I'll walk through a deployment pipeline I built for a multi-package TypeScript monorepo — covering version management, automated publishing, containerized verification, and documentation deployment. The patterns are generic enough to apply to any monorepo that ships multiple packages.
I'll use Nava Icon as a concrete example throughout, but the architecture works for any multi-package setup.
What "Deployment" Means for a Library
Most deployment articles talk about shipping apps to servers. For library authors, deployment means something different:
