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Programmatically pack and publish NPM package with libnpm

I'd like to publish to NPM within my CI/build system, so I found libnpmpublish which seems to be the correct tool, but explicitly states that it doesn't pack your code into a tarball, although the publish API requires that you pass it a tarball (as compared to, say, a folder or a path).

Their suggested solution is

Since libnpmpublish does not generate tarballs itself, one way to build your own tarball for publishing is to do npm pack in the directory you wish to pack. You can then fs.createReadStream('my-proj-1.0.0.tgz') and pass that to libnpmpublish, along with require('./package.json').

Is there a programmatic (in Node) way to script this process? I looked around the NPM repositories and couldn't find a package that is dedicated to packaging, though I can find this code which seems to implement packing, but is in an archived repository- namely, it's not in libnpm.

Solution

  • The closest I can find is npm-packlist which, when given a folder, creates a list of files which can be forwarded to the NPM tar package, as demonstrated in the README for npm-packlist.