packer-cli

Full-fledged CLI tool to generate and package library Node modules compliant with Browser and NodeJS. Packer CLI support all modern style, unit test and script transpiler tools.

This project is inspired by Angular CLI

Features

• Managed build configuration
• Encapsulated build process
• Both NPM and Yarn support
• Travis CI
• Typescript and Babel based code transpilation
• TS Lint based Typescript code analysis
• ES Lint based Javascript code analysis
• Style lint based style sheet code analysis
• Precompiled handlebars templating
• Support SCSS, SASS, LESS and Stylus and vanilla CSS
• Post CSS based image inline and auto prefixing
• Karma unit test runner
• Jasmine and Mocha unit test frameworks
• Rollup and Gulp based build process
• FESM5, FESM2015 and UMD build output
• Emmit type definitions for typescript projects
• Ready to publish as Node module
• Inline and bundle styles
• Theme packaging
• Source import path replace
• Exclude external peer dependencies in bundle
• Bundle peer dependencies
• Ignore imports
• Copy static assets to build dir
• Library summary banner generation
• Library dependency license extraction
• Node CLI project support

Usage

You can simply run the following command in a preferred directory to generate a new project using Packer CLI,

npx packer-cli generate my-library

or

npm install packer-cli -g && packer generate my-library

Then CLI will query questions associated to custom project generation,

Description about the library

Give us a small description about the library (optional)? Client compliant node module

Comma separated package keywords to be included in package config

Give us a set of comma separated package keywords (optional)? lib,awesome library,my library

Name of the library author

Author's name (optional)? Yohan Gomez

Name of the library author.

Author's email address (optional)? [e-mail]

Github username of the library author.

Author's github username (optional)? yohangz

Web home page of the library. This must be a valid URL.

Library homepage link (optional)? http://www.my-project.com

Script transpiler to be used. Select "none" to use vanilla javascript.

What's the script pre processor you want to use?

• typescript
• none

Support CSS bundling if yes.

Do you want style sheet support? (Y/n) Yes

Style preprocessor to be used. Select none if not required.

What's the style pre processor you want to use?

• scss
• sass
• less
• stylus
• none

Inline bundle style sheets within bundled script files.

Do you want to inline bundle styles within script? (Y/n) Yes

Target build process to support browser compliant bundling if yes

Are you building a browser compliant library? Yes

This options will generate a NodeJS CLI tool project.

Are you building a node CLI project? No

You can chose from the browser compliant flat bundle formats options list.

What's the build bundle format you want to use? umd

• umd
• amd
• iife
• system

Custom AMD id can be provided if flat bundle format is UMD or AMD. Applicable for "amd" module format only.

What's the AMD id you want to use? (optional) my-lib

Library namespace will be used when exposing the library via global scope. Applicable for "umd" | "iife" | "systemjs" module formats.

What's the library namespace you want to use? my.lib

You can chose either Jasmine or Mocha unit test framework.

Which unit test framework do you want to use?

• Jasmine
• Mocha

Library copyright year to be included in license file.

What is the library copyright year (optional)? 2018

Generate license file for the project.

What's the library copyright year (optional)?

• MIT License
• Apache License 2.0
• Mozilla Public License 2.0
• BBSD 2-Clause FreeBSD License
• BSD 3-Clause Revised License
• Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) License
• GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
• GNU General Public License v3.0 only
• The Unlicense

Use yarn package manager instead of NPM CLI if true.

Do you want to use yarn as package manager? (Y/n) Yes

Once project is generated and dependencies are installed, you can use the following CLI commands:

```sh
# Run project on watch mode
npm run watch

# Production build
npm run build

# Run Style and script lint tasks
npm run lint

# Run style lint task
npm run lint:style

# Run script lint task
npm run lint:script

# Run unit test suite on development envrionemnt watch mode
npm run test

# Run unit test suite on continues integration environment mode
npm run test:ci

# Bump package version and push updated package config
npm version major|monor|patch

# Build project and publish to NPM
npm run release

Generated Project Structure

.
├── /.rpt2_cache/               # TypeScript build cache directory
├── /.tmp/                      # Watch build temporary artifact directory
├── /demo/                      # Demo source content (applicable if serve mode is enabled in config)
│   ├── /build/                 # Build demo page and assets
│   ├── /helper/                # Watch and build demo helper scripts
│   │   ├── require.js          # RequireJS static artifact
│   │   └── system.js           # SystemJS static artifact
│   └── /watch/                 # Watch demo page and assets
├── /src/                       # Library source of the project
├── /node_modules/              # Node modules directory
├── /dist/                      # Compiled distribution artifacts directory (Generated by build task)
│   ├── /bundles                # Directory containing main bundled artifacts (umd, amd, iife, system, ejs, esm)
│   ├── /fesm5                  # Directory containing FESM5 artifact.
│   ├── /fesmnext               # Directory containing FESMNEXT artifact.
│   ├── /styles                 # Directory containing compiled style sheets.
│   ├── /LICENSE                # Project license agreement file.
│   ├── /package.json           # Package.json file with publish artifact specific configuration.
│   └── /README.md              # Package documentation markup file.
├── /.build/                    # Build helpers files directory
│   ├── .banne.hbs              # Build artifact top banner comment template. 
│   └── .bin.hbs                # Build artifact bin file template used in CLI projects
├── .editorconfig               # Define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs.
├── .babelrc.bundle.js          # Bundle build babel config.
├── .babelrc.es5.js             # ES5 build babel config.
├── .babelrc.esnext.js          # ESNext build babel config.
├── .eslintrc.yml               # ES Lint configuration.
├── .gitignore                  # Contains files to be ignored when pushing to git.
├── .packerrc.json              # This file contains library build configuration options.
├── .stylelintrc.json           # Style lint configuration.
├── .travis.yml                 # Travis CI configuration file.
├── karma.conf.js               # This file contains karma unit test runner configuration.
├── LICENSE                     # License agreement file
├── package.json                # NPM configuration and medata.
├── README.md                   # Project documentation markup file.
├── tsconfig.json               # This file contains base typescript compiler options and configuration.
└── tslint.json                 # TS Lint rules for the project.

Build Configuration

Build configuration can be updated after project generation via .packerrc.json.

{
  "entry": "index.ts",
  "source": "src",
  "dist": "dist",
  "output": {
    "amd": {
      "define": "",
      "id": ""
    },
    "dependencyMapMode": "mapDependency",
    "esnext": true,
    "es5": true,
    "minBundle": true,
    "format": "umd",
    "imageInlineLimit": 1000000,
    "inlineStyle": false,
    "stylesDir": "styles",
    "namespace": "my.lib"
  },
  "compiler": {
    "buildMode": "browser",
    "scriptPreprocessor": "typescript",
    "stylePreprocessor": "scss",
    "styleSupport": true
  },
  "assetPaths": [
    "src/assets"
  ],
  "copy": [
    "README.md",
    "LICENSE"
  ],
  "bundle": {
    "externals": [
      "handlebars/runtime"
    ],
    "globals": {},
    "mapExternals": false
  },
  "ignore": [],
  "pathReplacePatterns": [
    {
      "replace": "./config/replace-config",
      "test": "./config/base-config"
    }
  ],
  "testFramework": "jasmine",
  "watch": {
    "demoDir": "demo/watch",
    "helperDir": "demo/helper",
    "open": true,
    "port": 4000,
    "scriptDir": ".tmp",
    "serve": true
  },
  "license": {
    "banner": true,
    "thirdParty": {
      "fileName": "dependencies.txt",
      "includePrivate": false
    }
  }
}

Config	Type	Definition
entry	string	entry source file
source	string	source directory
dist	string	build artifact output directory
output	object	Build artifact output generation config
output.amd	object	AMD flat bundle configuration
output.amd.define	string	AMD flat bundle define function name
output.amd.id	string	AMD flat bundle module identifier name
output.dependencyMapMode	object	Dependency map modes
		"cross-map-peer-dependency" - Map project dependencies to target peerDependencies
		"cross-map-dependency" - Map project peerDependencies to target dependencies
		"map-dependency" - Map project dependencies to target dependencies
		"map-peer-dependency" - Map project peer dependencies to target peerDependencies
		"all" - Map both peerDependencies and dependencies to target peerDependencies and dependencies
output.es5	boolean	Generate flat ES5 module build artifacts based on .babelrc.es5.js
output.esnext	boolean	Generate flat ESNext module build artifacts based on .babelrc.esnext.js
output.minBundle	boolean	Generate minified flat bundle build artifact
output.format	string	Browser compliant bundle modules formats (based on .babelrc.bundle.js)
		"umd" – Universal Module Definition, works as amd, cjs and iife all in one
		"amd" – Asynchronous Module Definition, used with module loaders like RequireJS
		"iife" – A self-executing function, suitable for inclusion as a
		"system" - Native format of SystemJS loader
		NodeJS only bundle module formats
		"cjs" – CommonJS, suitable for Node and Browserify/Webpack
		"esm" – Keep the bundle as an ES module file
output.imageInlineLimit	number	Size limit in bytes to inline compile images
output.inlineStyle	boolean	Inline bundle styles withing JS distribution if true
output.stylesDir	string	Style artifact output directory within dist
output.namespace	string	Library global scope namespace (only applicable for browser compliant)
compiler	object	Compiler options object
compiler.buildMode	string	Library compile mode
		"browser" - Browser/NodeJS compliant module
		"node" - NodeJS only module
		"node-cli" - Node CLI module
compiler.scriptPreprocessor	string	Support "typescript" and "none" options
compiler.stylePreprocessor	string	Support "scss", "sass", "stylus", "less" and "none" options
compiler.styleSupport	boolean	Support style preprocessing and linting
assetPaths	array of strings	List of paths which contains static assets referenced in style sheets
copy	array of strings	List of files paths to copy on build.
bundle	object	Bundle options
bundle.externals	array of string	Bundle output external dependencies (dependency modules to treat as externals). Refer rollup options for more info.
bundle.globals	object	Bundle output global dependencies (dependency modules to tread as globals). Refer rollup options for more info.
bundle.mapExternals	boolean	Treat globals as externals if true
bundle.ignore	array of strings	Import paths to ignore with noop implementation
pathReplacePatterns	array of objects	Import path replace pattern collection
pathReplacePatterns.test	string	Path to find
pathReplacePatterns.replace	string	Path to replace
testFramework	string	Support "Jasmine" and "Mocha" test framework options
watch	object	watch mode configuration object
watch.scriptDir	string	watch build temporary directory
watch.helperDir	string	watch build helper library directory
watch.demoDir	string	watch demo page dir
watch.port	number	watch server port
watch.serve	boolean	Serve project via browser on watch mode
watch.open	boolean	open browser automatically on watch mode
license	object	Bundle license configuration
license.banner	boolean	Include inline header banner passed via .banner.hbs template

Contributions

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