alfred-link
Advanced tools
Make your Alfred workflows installable from npm
$ npm install --save alfred-link
This package will only affect the latest one if you have multiple versions in your system.
Add the alfred-link command as postinstall script of your Alfred package and add alfred-unlink as preuninstall script to clean up the resources when the workflow gets uninstalled.
{
"name": "alfred-unicorn",
"scripts": {
"postinstall": "alfred-link",
"preuninstall": "alfred-unlink"
}
}
You can now install the alfred-unicorn package like this
$ npm install -g alfred-unicorn
This will update info.plist with the information from package.json and creates a unicorn symlink inside the Alfred workflows directory that points to the location of the alfred-unicorn module.
This package will update the info.plist file when the workflow is being installed. The following properties in info.plist can be safely omitted. The corresponding values in package.json are added to the plist file.
| info.plist | package.json |
|---|---|
| version | version |
| description | description |
| webaddress | homepage |
| createdby | author.name |
When developing an Alfred workflow, you can call alfred-link directly from your cli. Use npx to call the local installation of alfred-link and alfred-unlink.
$ npx alfred-link
This will create a symlink in the Alfred workflows directory pointing to your development location without transforming info.plist.
To remove the symlink afterwards, you can call alfred-unlink.
$ npx alfred-unlink
MIT © Sam Verschueren
FAQs
Make your Alfred workflows installable from npm
The npm package alfred-link receives a total of 90 weekly downloads. As such, alfred-link popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that alfred-link demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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