如何在 npm 模块的未发布版本中构建 /dist？

Question

Working on a pull request for this module: https://github.com/echoulen/react-pull-to-refresh ...

I believe the published module builds /dist in the package.json prepublish npm script. I am using the module locally with my github branch installed via yarn add https://github.com/jbeuckm/react-pull-to-refresh .

The problem is when I try to build my (consuming) project in a bitbucket pipeline. The pipeline fails when the react-js-pull-to-refresh module can not be resolved. I suspect this is because the /dist folder is built in prepublish and my version is not published.

How can I tell npm to build /dist in my unpublished repo module when building the consuming project?

Answer 1

You can change the prepublish script in your package.json to prepare instead. The prepare script should run on the consuming project when installing the dependency.

According to the docs ( https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/install under the bullet-point npm install <git remote url> ):

If the package being installed contains a prepare script, its dependencies and devDependencies will be installed, and the prepare script will be run, before the package is packaged and installed.

Check out https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scripts#prepublish-and-prepare