justluiz / publish-flat

Publish your project flattened

publish-flat

Publish your project flattened. No more dist in require('project/dist/Options').

Description

Here is what it does:

1. Copies your dist files together with the other release files into a temporary directory
2. Aligns your package.json to work with the flattened structure
3. Publishes your project from the temporary directory (optional)

Example

Before

Directory structure of the published project:

.
├── dist
│   ├── index.d.ts
│   ├── index.js
│   ├── index.js.map
│   ├── Options.d.ts
│   ├── Options.js
│   └── Options.js.map
└── package.json

In other people's code:

import {Options} from 'project/dist/Options';

After

Directory structure of the published project:

.
├── index.d.ts
├── index.js
├── index.js.map
├── Options.d.ts
├── Options.js
├── Options.js.map
└── package.json

In other people's code:

import {Options} from 'project/Options';

Installation

yarn add publish-flat

CLI Usage

Usage: publish-flat [options] [dir]

Publish your project without the dist directory

Options:
  -V, --version        output the version number
  -y, --yarn           Use yarn for publishing (default: false)
  -f, --flatten <dir>  Which directory to flatten (default: "dist")
  -o, --output <dir>   Set the output directory (default: temp directory)
  -p, --publish        Publish (default: false)
  -h, --help           output usage information

API Usage

See cli.ts.