npm-package-maker-lite

Scaffold and optionally publish npm packages from a local file, a remote URL, or stdin JSON.

Install (local dev)

# in this folder
npm install

CLI usage

npmmaker --help

# From URL
npmmaker --from https://example.com/my-package-config.json --dir ./out/my-pkg
# With auth header
npmmaker --from https://api.example.com/configs/123 -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" --dir ./out/my-pkg

# From local file
npmmaker --from ./config.json --dir ./out/my-pkg

# From stdin
cat config.json | npmmaker --dir ./out/my-pkg

# Start HTTP API server
npmmaker --serve --port 8787 --base-dir ./out --token mysecret

# Clean a generated directory
npmmaker --clean ./out/my-pkg

Example output:

Config format:

{
  "name": "my-lib",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "My generated lib",
  "main": "index.js",
  "type": "commonjs",
  "bin": { "my-lib": "./cli.js" },
  "scripts": { "test": "node -e \"console.log('ok')\"" },
  "keywords": ["demo"],
  "author": "",
  "license": "MIT",
  "files": ["index.js", "cli.js", "README.md"],
  "publishConfig": { "access": "public" },
  "filesMap": {
    "index.js": "module.exports = () => 'hello';\n",
    "cli.js": "#!/usr/bin/env node\nconsole.log(require('./index.js')());\n",
    "README.md": { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/user/repo/main/README.md" }
  },
  "vars": { "PACKAGE_NAME": "my-lib" },
  "readme": "# my-lib\n\nHello!\n"
}

API server endpoints

# Health
curl http://localhost:8787/health

# Version
curl http://localhost:8787/version

# Scaffold (Bearer token optional if server started with --token)
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer mysecret" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X POST http://localhost:8787/scaffold?dir=my-lib \
  -d '{
    "name": "my-lib",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "filesMap": {
      "index.js": "module.exports = () => 'hello';\n"
    }
  }'

# Clean
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer mysecret" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X POST http://localhost:8787/clean -d '{"dir":"./out/my-lib"}'

Publish to npm

1. Log in:

npm login

2. Optionally change the package name in package.json if the name is taken.

3. Publish (public):

npm publish --access public

Uninstall / revert

• Remove generated package: delete the folder or use npmmaker --clean <dir>.
• Uninstall the CLI from your machine:

npm uninstall -g npm-package-maker-lite

License

MIT