Unable to publish to the GitHub Registry

I’ve been following this document (and the README): https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/bd-p/actions, specifically the part about cross publishing between npmjs and the GitHub registry, but I can’t seem to get it to work. This is my workflow: https://github.com/JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action/blob/dev/.github/workflows/publish.yml

The problem I’m having is that every time I publish it says I must authenticate, except it’s providing a URL related to the npmjs registry: 401 Unauthorized - PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/github-pages-deploy-action - You must be logged in to publish packages.

This is the full log. Am I missing something here or is this a bug?

[JamesIves]

I’ve managed to resolve this with my actions with the following workflow file:

https://github.com/JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action/blob/dev/.github/workflows/publish.yml

I also added the scope to the package.json file here: https://github.com/JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action/blob/dev/package.json#L2

It now cross publishes between npm and GitHub correctly. Thanks to everyone for their help resolving this. I’ll leave this open as I still believe this is an issue with setup-node.

[jojobyte]

My repo was having a similar issue to this one. Replacing the package name in package.json by adding the scope to it solved it for Github Package Registry.

// original
{
    "name": "traefikjam",
}

// fix for GPR publish
{
    "name": "@jojobyte/traefikjam",
}

My fix: https://github.com/jojobyte/traefikjam/blob/master/.github/workflows/node-build.yml#L40

jobs:
  npm-build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
      packages: write
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: '18.x'
          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
      - run: npm ci
      - name: Publish to NPM
        run: npm publish
        env:
          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: '18.x'
          registry-url: 'https://npm.pkg.github.com'
          scope: '@scope'
      - run: npm ci
      - name: Publish to GitHub Package Registry
        run: |
          sed -i 's+"name": ".*+"name": "@${{ github.repository }}",+gI' ./package.json
          npm publish
        env:
          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

This lets you publish to NPM with an unscoped package name and GPR with a scoped package name.