Svelte template - 'cat' is not recognized about create-snowpack-app

[ervwalter]

I noticed the same. It's because the snowpack.config.js in @snowpack/app-scripts-svelte specifies a build script for .js files that looks like:

"build:js": "cat"

But there is no cat executable on windows. My workaround was to run npm start and/or npm build from a Git Bash prompt instead of from the Windows command prompt because Git Bash adds basic unix tools like cat to the path.

Maybe the template should install and use the cat npm module since that appears to be cross platform.

[ervwalter]

FYI, I did npm install cat in my sample project made from the template and it started working because that npm module installs a cat command in node_modules.

[FredKSchott]

Didn't even think of this! Could be smart to just add this as a dependency to the app-scripts package by default

[FredKSchott]

Update: With the way we're going, cat may just end up being the default behavior: If no build script is defined, assume it's okay to just copy over. In that case, we could just remove cat and solve this problem by ignoring it (for now, anyway)

[FredKSchott]

Fixed: files without a build script are now copied by default. This has been true for a while, but we are now also handling JS imports properly as well for JS files, with or without a 'build:js' script.

you can remove 'cat' from your build scripts (we're removing them now from the CSA apps) and this should solve this problem.

if you run into this problem later on in your own scripts, you can check out: https://github.com/shelljs/shx

[countnazgul]

Thank you very much guys!