$ npm install --save wechaty
$ node mybot.js

There could be some issue when using npm install in China due to Internet Censorship by GFW(Great Fire Wall).

If you have this kind of issue, you need to switch to use NPM Registry Mirror from Taobao instead of using the default NPM Registry.

You can start to use NPM Registry Mirror from Taobao by any of the following three methods:

npm --registry https://registry.npm.taobao.org install wechaty

npm config set registry https://registry.npm.taobao.org

npm install wechaty

alias cnpm="npm --registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org \
    --cache=$HOME/.npm/.cache/cnpm \
    --disturl=https://npm.taobao.org/dist \
    --userconfig=$HOME/.cnpmrc"

cnpm install wechaty

Learn more about Taobao Mirror for NPM from:

• Taobao NPM Mirror Official Home
• How to use Taobao NPM Mirror

If your server is inside China, use CDN instead of install directly will great help you to get it done.

npm install chromedriver --chromedriver_cdnurl=https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/chromedriver

$ npm dist-tag add wechaty@0.5.2 latest

package.json

{
  "publishConfig": {
    "tag": "next"
  }
}

$ NO_HOOK=1 git push origin <tag_name>

NO_HOOK is introduced here because if we are using the pre-push hook, then we need to disable it to push tag. The pre-push script file for Wechaty lives here

npm login --scope=chatie
npm --access=public publish

• publishing scoped module
• solving npm’s hard problem: naming packages
• Working with scoped packages

• One simple trick for JavaScript package maintainers to avoid breaking their user’s software and to ship stable releases How to make use of npm’s package distribution tags to create release channels just like Google Chrome’s
• http://stackoverflow.com/a/5195913/1123955

When we need to publish a STABLE version(the minor version is even), we need to make sure the following modules is all STABLE version:

• wechaty-puppet
• wechaty-puppet-puppeteer
• wechaty-puppet-mock
• wechaty-puppet-wechat4u
• wechaty-puppet-padchat
• wechaty-puppet-ioscat
• wechaty-puppet-hostie
• wechaty - Update CHANGELOG
• wechaty