Build jar

This is an extension you can use to create a JAR archive. This is useful if you want to use npm as your build tool, e.g. to build your Java applications.

General usage

You can create the following config parameters if you want to. If you don't specify a main class, it will be packed as a non executable jar file. The name parameter is the only required parameter. The script will create a jar file named [name]-[version].jar. The version is extracted from the package.json file.

"config": {
    "main_class": "com.your.mainclass",
    "bin": "bin",
    "name": "Product Name"
}

Then the only thing you have to do is creating a scripts part in your package.json in order to copy all the resource files to your bin/classes directory:

"devDependencies": {
    "build-jar": "^1.0.0"
},
"scripts": {
    "build:jar": "build-jar"
  }

Now you can run the build command using a simple npm run build:jar.