gobble-unpackage

Use only the needed files from NPM/SPM/CommonJS modules in your GobbleJS workflow.

Why?

There are a myriad of javascript package managers our there: Bower, NPM, JSPM, SPM, Volo, Meteor, Composer and so on.

The goal of gobble-unpackage is allowing you, the web developer, to use any of these package managers, then use GobbleJS to filter out the files you don't need, keeping only those specified in the package.json definition.

It also does some magic to the existing sourcemaps, so longer paths (including the module name) will be shown in the final files.

Installation

I assume you already know the basics of Gobble.

npm i -D gobble-unpackage

Usage

In your gobblefile, run the package gobble transform, like so:

var gobble = require( 'gobble' );
module.exports = gobble( directory_with_a_javascript_package ).transform( 'unpackage' );

The output node will contain only the files described by the main property of the package.json file in the package. CSS and Less are managed, as well as the SPM format for package.json.

If you want to override any values of the package's package.json, specify those overrides as options to the 'unpackage' transform:

module.exports = gobble( directory_with_a_javascript_package )
.transform( 'unpackage', { main: './build/foobar.js' });

The output will include sourcemap files. If these are giving any problems, specify the option stripSourcemaps with a truthy value. This will strip any existing sourcemaps and replace them with a fake inline sourcemap pointing to the original file. Use this option if you would like to completely ignore sourcemaps from the module's author.

module.exports = gobble( directory_with_a_javascript_package )
.transform( 'unpackage', { stripSourcemaps: true });

Example usage

A more ellaborate example, to concatenate some JS libraries:

npm install jquery
npm install bootstrap
npm install leaflet

var gobble = require( 'gobble' );

var libs = gobble([
	gobble('node_modules/leaflet'  ).transform('unpackage'),
	gobble('node_modules/jquery'   ).transform('unpackage'),
	gobble('node_modules/bootstrap').transform('unpackage', {
		main: './dist/js/bootstrap.js'
	})
]);

var libJS = libs.transform('concat', { dest: 'libs.js', files: '**/*.js' });
var libCSS = libs.transform('concat', { dest: 'libs.css', files: '**/*.css' });

module.exports = gobble([ libJS, libCSS ]);

Caveats

gobble-unpackage will not:

• resolve require() calls as some CommonJS modules expect
• process packages which do not include .js in the filename of for the main property

License

"THE BEER-WARE LICENSE":
<[email protected]> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.