Dashes in filename about create-index

[jakesylvestre]

I've gone ahead and forked it here: https://github.com/jakesyl/create-index-normalized to camelCase names with a - for anyone interested. @gajus would be cool to have a camelcase option

[gajus]

Dash cannot be part of a valid export name.

On Apr 13, 2016, at 15:35, Marc Arbesman [email protected] wrote:

I seem to be having an issue with dashes in filenames. The index file gets created, but is empty.

thanks

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[willcode4food]

Thanks for the quick response. Is this by design or a limitation of the methods to parse filenames?

[gajus]

As far as I know, there is no spec/ proposal that would allow to export a name consisting a dash, e.g.

export 'foo-bar' from './foo-bar';

is not a valid JavaScript code.

If I am wrong and it is valid JavaScript code, then it is a trivial fix.

Regardless, looking at http://babeljs.io/repl/#?evaluate=true&presets=es2015%2Creact%2Cstage-0&experimental=true&loose=false&spec=false&code=export%20'foo-bar'%20from%20'.%2Ffoo-bar'%3B, it does not look like above is valid syntax.

[willcode4food]

I understand. I am trying to do something more like this

export 'foobar' from './foo-bar'

As far as I am aware, this is valid syntax and can be transpiled. Please let me know what you think

[gajus]

create-index does not perform any sort of name normalisation.

[willcode4food]

Understood. thanks for the info. I'll move in another direction

[gajus]

I strongly encourage to have 1=1 relation between import files and variables representing the asset.

[willcode4food]

Agreed this is ideal. When working on someone else's code, I'm trying to be as unintrusive as possible. This discussion makes me realize, perhaps renaming files might be something I need to discuss with the repo owner.

thanks