component-linknpm

Link downloaded components into node_modules

Installation

$ npm install component-linknpm

Rationale

Creating components which work both across node and the browser is quite a mess. One of the inconveniences is that one has to use two package managers and deal with the incompatibilities of the two, such as the lack of namespaces in npm. One workaround for this is to publish a component/emitter component as emitter-component on npm. This however leads to confusion and workarounds such as this:

var Emitter;
try {
    Emitter = require('emitter'); // component
} catch (e) {
    Emitter = require('emitter-component'); // node
}

component-linknpm tries to work around this issue by simply symlinking everything that is in ./components/ to ./node_modules/. I know is is far from being a good solution, but it works for my purposes so far.

note: This is still very incomplete, for example, it does not handle sub-dependencies yet.

Usage

$ component install # download the components
$ component linknpm # symlink them to ./node_modules/

License

LGPLv3