Releases to NPM

[korverdev]

I'd love to see this package made available on NPM. Unfortunately, my company is very particular about always downloading dependencies off NPM and outright bans other sources, so if this was possible, it would help a lot for to drive adoption on my team.

[korverdev]

There's at least one person who I don't believe is affiliated with this project who's taken it on themselves to publish this project, but it's fallen out of date and I would have security concerns using an NPM package that isn't endorsed by the people behind the library.

[stag-enterprises]

that's me btw :)

i haven't used it recently so i really never even realized it was out of date 🫠

[gnat]

First party distribution on NPM is planned for the next release, assuming no gotchas. Thanks for trying out the project!

[frederikb]

Thanks, @gnat! Looking forward to the release.

This will also enable us to consume the library via WebJars in the Java ecosystem. WebJars automatically bundles up NPM dependencies in a format consumable via the dependency management used in that ecosystem.

tl;dr: Happy user

[gnat]

Official automated NPM releases are now available at https://www.npmjs.com/package/@geenat/surreal

Enjoy !!

[frederikb]

Thanks @gnat, appreciated!

You might want to add that information to the respective section in the README.md as well?

Also, the published NPM package still contains some unnecessary files in my opinion.

You should be able to exclude those by switching to a whitelist approach in the package.json of including only certain files:

{
  // …
  "files": [
    "surreal.js",
    "README.md",
    "LICENSE"
  ]
}

[gnat]

Done @frederikb thank you for the great suggestion!