Update workflow and make available on npm repo in addition to github

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare repository
         run: git fetch --unshallow --tags
 
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: 16
+          node-version: 'latest'
           cache: 'yarn'
 
       # allow the lock file to change (updating our own workspace versions in monorepo)
@@ -30,4 +30,10 @@ jobs:
         with:
           commit_message: Apply yarn.lock changes
 
+      # publishes canaries and releases to github
       - run: yarn release
+
+      # cannot run this on branches because it doesn't keep the canary version from auto shipit, can only secondarily publish to npm for main branch
+      - name: Publish secondarily to npm
+        run: npm publish --access=public --ignore-scripts --@alienfast:registry='https://registry.npmjs.org'
+        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'

.npmrc

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 # provide this for the github actions
 @alienfast:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com
-//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${GITHUB_TOKEN}
+//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${GITHUB_TOKEN}
+//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}