[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#933007: Bug#933007: pkg-js-tools: Automatically link components in node_modules directory

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2019, ജൂലൈ 25 11:15:50 PM IST, Xavier Guimard <yadd at debian.org> wrote:
>Package: pkg-js-tools
>Version: 0.8.1
>Severity: wishlist
>
>When using components in node modules, the best way to use them is to
>install them in node_modules/ directory. However, dpkg-source install
>them at the top source directory under a directory named by "component"
>field value (debian/watch).
>
>The idea here is, before build, to automatically read debian/watch to
>find
>components, read <component>/package.json to find the node name and
>create a link "../<component> => <node-name>" in node_modules directory
>(created on-the-fly). Also, it will remove automatically node_modules
>directory during dh_clean step.
>Then no need to overwrite NODE_PATH in debian/rules.
>
>Any comment is welcome here ;-).

Good idea. It would be nice if we can somehow automate installation too, instead of adding each module in debian/install. May be we can read package.json#dependencies to determine which should be installed (but it can get complex if we consider whole dependency tree). Or provide debian/node_modules file to explicitly list the node modules to be installed.
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