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libnpmpack
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libnpmpack
is a Node.js library for
programmatically packing tarballs from a local directory or from a registry or github spec. If packing from a local source, libnpmpack
will also run the prepack
and postpack
lifecycles.
const pack = require('libnpmpack')
$ npm install libnpmpack
> pack(spec, [opts]) -> Promise
Packs a tarball from a local directory or from a registry or github spec and returns a Promise that resolves to the tarball data Buffer, with from, resolved, and integrity fields attached.
If no options are passed, the tarball file will be saved on the same directory from which pack
was called in.
libnpmpack
uses pacote
.
Most options are passed through directly to that library, so please refer to
its own opts
documentation
for options that can be passed in.
// packs from cwd
const tarball = await pack()
// packs from a local directory
const localTar = await pack('/Users/claudiahdz/projects/my-cool-pkg')
// packs from a registry spec
const registryTar = await pack('abbrev@1.0.3')
// packs from a github spec
const githubTar = await pack('isaacs/rimraf#PR-192')
FAQs
Programmatic API for the bits behind npm pack
The npm package libnpmpack receives a total of 510,339 weekly downloads. As such, libnpmpack popularity was classified as popular.
We found that libnpmpack demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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