copy-for-browser

Copy files from node_modules to a public path for use in the browser

This utility is designed to be used where you have both a server and a browser client being loaded from the same tree.

It will copy files from under node_modules to the correct directory in the public path, based on the package.json for the package.

Install

npm install copy-for-browser --save-dev

Usage

In your package.json, your will need a section at the top level with the key "browserCopy". This should contain one or more keys which are destination paths for the files. Each key should have an array of file paths for the source files.

This is a (simplified) example of package.json:

{
  "name": "my-package",
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "^3.2.1",
    "jquery-ui": "^1.12.1",
  },
  "dev-dependencies": {
    "copy-for-browser": "^1.0.0"
  },
  "browserCopy": {
    "public/js/vendor": [
      "jquery/dist/jquery.min.js",
      "pouchdb/dist/pouchdb.min.js"
    ],
    "public/css": [
      "jquery-ui/themes/base/all.css"
    ]
  },
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "copy": "copy-for-browser"
  }
}

Using this, you can run npm install and npm run copy and the files will appear in public/js/vendor and public/css, relative to the root of your project.

Please let me know if you find this useful. Any issues or comments would be appreciated at Github.

Note

In version 1.x of copy-for-browser, the key "browser" was used. This has been changed to "browserCopy" to avoid the conflict with browserify.