Publish development version of NPM package

Question

How can I publish development version of NPM package?

I tried to set \"dev\" value for version field in package.json but I got

Answer 1

You can upload prerelease tags to npm. These tags will not be matched by normal semver range semantics, but will allow you to both use and upload development versions. An example would be 1.3.5-alpha.3. If you're uploading something that has no version yet, then a reasonable use would be something like 0.0.1-alpha.1.