You cannot publish over the previously published versions

Question

I've updated my package using npm version minor to go from 0.4.0 to 0.5.0, and both package.json and package-lock.json reflect this. However when I run the npm publish command it says:

You cannot publish over the previously published versions: 0.4.0

Is there another place I need to update the semver in order to publish?

Answer 1

This helped me:

Open Command Prompt and do the following steps.

1. npm version <new_Version_No>
2. npm publish

Answer 2

In your package.json, there might exist a publish script command with content of npm publish ..., remove or rename the publish command in your scripts of package.json if there is one.

Take the following code for example, this scripts.publish command will again be triggered by npm publish --access public, running recursively.

"scripts": {
 "publish": "npm publish --access public" // this was being triggered by running `npm publish`
},

Answer 3

take a look at your package.json. Is the version actually set to 0.5.0? If not consider setting it manually there. NPM is telling you that you already have a version 0.4.0 and it cannot publish it again. So it seems to think that it's still on 0.4.0.

Answer 4

npm version [patch|minor|major|<version_no>] should be done to bump up the version and then

npm publish for public visibility add --access public

This should do it.