# What are the steps to create your own package in Julia?

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** package, first-steps\
**Created:** [June 6, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-steps-to-create-your-own-package-in-julia/40877 "2020-06-06T14:20:52Z")\
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A lot of the answers here and elsewhere concern building a package from scratch. In my case, I have basically built a beta of my package and uploaded it to Github. However, the package has none of the “structure” of a package (e.g. the `.toml` files and package metadata), and I would like to create these files and add my existing code to the package registry _without_ creating a new Github repository, if possible.

**How can I “convert” an existing project into a registered package while working within the same Github repository?**

Specifically, what I currently have in the root directory is a main `Foo.jl` file that defines a bunch of functions, a `readme.md`, and a bunch of example code and graphs in subdirectories.

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