Creating your own private unity packages using GitHub

I've made countless Unity projects and prototypes over the years. Recently I decided to comb through them and pick out parts that I would like to reuse in newer projects. To do this i created a new Unity empty project with no dependencies. I decided on a namespace for my framework and pasted the code snippets I wanted to reuse.

I used the following file structure:

Assets/
   package.json
  - Runtime (All runtime scripts are in this folder)
  - Editor (All editor scripts are in this folder)

The content in the package file is as follows:

{
  "name": "com.simondtd.springboard",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "displayName": "Springboard",
  "description": "A way to kickstart your project",
  "unity": "2024.2",
  "author": {
    "name": "Simon Hesjevik",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "url": "https://simonh.dev"
  }
}

I also had to add two assemby definitions, one for the Runtime namespace and one for the Editor namespace. Except for specifying the namespaces, the only thing I had to do was to include the Editor only in the editor assemby definitions platform matrix.

I then pushed this to a new GitHub repo and created a release.

To use this