NPM CLIENT MODULES ( $ npm-cm )

Description

NPM Client Modules is a tool to move the client modules like bootstrap or angular ... to the public folder.

We have the following structure to a project,

    root

    o- client
       |
       o- index.html
       |
       o- scripts
       |
       o- styles

    o- server
       |
       o- module
       |
       o-controller

    o- node_modules
       |
       o- bootstrap
       |
       o- express

The question is:

How you can have access to the bootstrap folder ?

You cannot

***Using npm-cm (npm client module) command will create a new folder into root/client//bootstrap ***, so you will able to have access from index.html file. npm-cm will transfer only the modules that you want.

How to use it

First of all you have to install it.

Step 1 - Install it

If you want to install the module globally run:

$ npm install npm-client-modules -g

or you can just install it as dev dependency locally in your project so your partners get it.

$ npm install npm-client-modules --save-dev

also if you run in locally you with need to register a script into package.json file

"scripts": {
    ...,
    "npm-cm": "node ./node_modules/npm-client-modules/index.js"
  }

Step 2 - Configuration

You have to create a json file with name package-client.json

{
  "options": {
    "destination_path": "./public/lib", // WHERE DO YOU WANT TO MOVE THE FOLDERS
    "source_path": "./node_modules" // LOCATION OF THE NODE MODULES
  },
  "client-dependencies":[
    "bootstrap" // WHICH MODULES ARE FOR CLIENT, ONLY THE NAME
  ]
}

Step 3 - Run it

Now you have to run the command $ npm-cm or if you run it locally $ npm run npm-cm

Examples

Look at the test folder