Np: Stuck at "Publishing package using npm"

[papb]

Description

I have spent hours trying to figure out what is going on, but I have no idea. Running np simply gets stuck at the "Publishing package using npm" part.

Steps to reproduce

I would guess this is probably hard to reproduce. Clearly this works for everyone else, otherwise there would be several issues about it already (such a basic feature that is not working!)

My request

I wish there was an easy way to at least know what is the problem... Perhaps a --verbose option? Because I have no idea even on how to make progress on this.

Environment

Perhaps this has something to do with being on Windows 7?

np - 5.2.1 and 4.0.2 (same problem on both)
Node.js - v10.16.3
npm - 6.13.6
Git - 2.21.0.windows.1
OS - Windows 7 (Windows_NT x64 6.1.7601)

[papb]

Wow. Windows. Nevermind... I had a prepack script which called del (from del-cli, however del is already a windows built-in, so it was being called instead of the node module. And it asks for a confirmation (are you sure? y/n), and this confirmation was not shown by np, and ended up waiting in the background forever. This is why it was stuck...

[emjimadhu]

I have the same problem on mac too. Even though it got stuck at it. The package is published. But it is not passing from that step to next one.

[papb]

Hi @emjimadhu, that's weird, have you triple-checked your prepublish npm script (and the like)?

[emjimadhu]

@papb I am really sorry, my problem was because of my stupidity. I named the npm script as publish.

[papb]

Glad you figured it out, happens to all of us...

[Himujjal]

lol. What a coincidence that I also named my npm script as publish. If not for this issue, I would have been stuck on this too! Thanks!