Any plan on releasing to npm ?

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Any plan on releasing to npm ?

Closed this issue 6 years ago · 4 comments

In the readme you mention this project

is designed to be easily utilized in the context of a larger scientific software application

Composing third-party code libraries in large (in fact, any) application usually comes with some sort of dependency (package) manager.

Any plans on releasing to npm maybe ?

Answer 1 · 2018-10-11T17:23:36.000Z

Looking more into the project, I seem to understand that you may already be releasing it as a ruby gem, although I couldn't find anything on https://rubygems.org/

Since this project is only 1% ruby code (just for packaging IIUC), it would make much more sense to approach the dependency the other way around IMO: depend on an npm package from your ruby app.

If you / your team is indeed more familiar with Ruby, maybe this guide to creating node modules will be of interest.

(as a side note, I observed that third-party js dependencies have been committed in vendor/assets/javascripts/. this doesn't scale, and can precisely be avoided with package managers like npm)

Answer 2 · 2018-10-11T19:12:05.000Z

This is a good suggestion ... i'm not sure when we'll get to look at it but I agree that this is mostly js so we should release it in that environment. I'm thinking about using bower as well which might help to elminate the embedded dependencies.

Answer 3 · 2018-10-12T10:00:27.000Z

Glad we agree. Bower themselves recommend migrating away from them. They suggest Yarn as an alternative, but two arguments would make me lean towards npm. Disclaimer: I am partial to npm since that's what we are currently using :)

Feedback from someone who went to yarn then back to npm
Yarn can [...] install any package from the npm registry anyway

Moreover, I believe the choice between the two is not so definitive, by that I mean that once the lib is packaged correctly, moving from one package manager to the other shouldn't be too hard.

Answer 4 · 2018-10-12T10:08:34.000Z

On a more practical note. We've decided to try and integrate plate-map to our own front-end app. If that goes well and suits our needs, I'd be keen for my team to have a go at packaging it, and submit a PR if all goes well.