ses. It is now recommended that you install
any binaries as local devDependencies wherever possible.</p>
<h2 id="private">private</h2>
<p>If you set <code>&quot;private&quot;: true</code> in your package.json, then npm will refuse
to publish it.</p>
<p>This is a way to prevent accidental publication of private repositories.  If
you would like to ensure that a given package is only ever published to a
specific registry (for example, an internal registry), then use the
<code>publishConfig</code> dictionary de