pkgbld

pkgbld

Build your libraries with ease

Rollup based build tool for building libraries based on package.json config and simple CLI options.

It is simple building tool that supports building to different targets like: es, cjs, umd without additional trasformation other than minification using terser or preprocess using rollup-plugin-preprocess.

Changlelog

Why

It is created to easily build libraries that contains mutliple subpath exports (entry points, subpackages) because it is not that easy to do at the moment with microbundle, tsdx or ng-packagr (if you are on Typescript).

Installation

Using npm:

npm install --save-dev pkgbld

Getting started (minimalistic start from scratch)

1. Start from creating pcakage.json using npm init
2. Add pkgbld npm install --save-dev pkgbld
3. Create src/index.ts
4. Add pkgbld in scripts field of your package.json like:

  "scripts": {
    "build": "pkgbld"
  },

Run npm run build.

package.json

pkgbld expects name field to be filled in the package.json file. exports field defines what entries/outputs should be build for this package.

CLI options

umd

pkgbld --umd=index,core

Where index,core should be replaced by entry points that should be comiled in umd format, index is top level '.' entry point.

If package.json defined umd field option will be defaulted to index.

compress

pkgbld --compress=es,umd

Where es,umd should be replaced by formats that should be compressed using terser.

sourcemaps

pkgbld --sourcemaps=es,cjs

Where es,cjs should be replaced by targets for which sourcemaps should be generated. Default umd.

Supported targets for this option: es, cjs and umd.

formats

pkgbld --formats=es

Defines what formats to build, only supports es and cjs at the moment. Use umd flag to build umd target.

preprocess

pkgbld --preprocess=index

Defines what entry points/files should be preprocessed using rollup-plugin-preprocess. For the entry point will be defined variable es (for esm target), cjs (for commonjs) and umd (for umd) depending on the target type. Please request more variables / more granular logic if you want more.

dir

pkgbld --dir=dist

Directory to put output files.

sourcedir

pkgbld --sourcedir=src

Directory to search for input files.

bin

pkgbld --bin=./dist/index.cjs,./dist/index.mjs

File(s) to make executable. First entry will be added to package.json

include-externals

pkgbld --include-externals

Bundles all externals into package.

eject

pkgbld --eject

Ejects Rollup config.

no-ts-config

pkgbld --no-ts-config

Do not check / write tsconfig.json.

no-update-package-json

pkgbld --no-update-package-json

Do not write package.json.

License

MIT