Vite TypeScript NPM Package

Scaffold TypeScript npm packages using this template to bootstrap your next library.

Versions of this template:

• Vite TypeScript library npm package
• Vite JavaScript library npm package
• Rollup TypeScript library npm package
• Rollup JavaScript library npm package

Getting Started

Begin via any of the following:

• Press the "Use this template" button

• Use degit to execute:

  degit github:jasonsturges/vite-typescript-npm-package

• Use GitHub CLI to execute:

  gh repo create <name> --template="https://github.com/jasonsturges/vite-typescript-npm-package"

• Simply git clone, delete the existing .git folder, and then:

  git clone https://github.com/jasonsturges/vite-typescript-npm-package.git
  cd vite-typescript-npm-package
  rm -rf .git
  git init
  git add -A
  git commit -m "Initial commit"

There is no package lock included so that you may chose either npm or yarn.

Remember to use npm search <term> to avoid naming conflicts in the NPM Registery for your new package name.

Usage

The following tasks are available for npm run:

• dev: Run Vite in watch mode to detect changes to files during development
• start: Run Vite in host mode to work in a local development environment within this package, eliminating the need to test from a linked project
• build: Run Vite to build a production release distributable
• build:types: Run DTS Generator to build d.ts type declarations only

There are two strategies for development:

• With dev task, Vite compiles all modules to the dist/ folder, as well as rollup of all types to a d.ts declaration file
• With start task, Vite hosts the index.html with real time HMR updates enabling development directly within this library without the need to link to other projects.

Rollup your exports to the top-level index.ts for inclusion into the build distributable.

For example, if you have a utils/ folder that contains an arrayUtils.ts file.

/src/utils/arrayUtils.ts:

export const distinct = <T>(array: T[] = []) => [...new Set(array)];

Include that export in the top-level index.ts .

/src/index.ts:

// Main library exports - these are packaged in your distributable
export { distinct } from "./utils/arrayUtils"

Development

Vite features a host mode to enable development with real time HMR updates directly from the library via the start script.

To test your library from within an app:

• From your library: run npm link or yarn link command to register the package
• From your app: run npm link "mylib" or yarn link "mylib" command to use the library inside your app during development

For UI projects, you may want to consider adding tools such as Storybook to isolate UI component development by running a storybook script from this package.

Development Cleanup

Once development completes, unlink both your library and test app projects.

• From your app: run npm link "mylib" or yarn link "mylib" command to use the library inside your app during development
• From your library: run npm unlink or yarn unlink command to register the package

If you mistakenly forget to unlink, you can manually clean up artifacts from yarn or npm.

For yarn, the link command creates symlinks which can be deleted from your home directory:

~/.config/yarn/link

For npm, the link command creates global packages which can be removed by executing:

sudo npm rm --global "mylib"

Confirm your npm global packages with the command:

npm ls --global --depth 0

Release Publishing

Update your package.json to the next version number and tag a release.

If you are publishing to a private registry such as GitHub packages, update your package.json to include publishConfig and repository:

package.json:

  "publishConfig": {
    "registry": "https://npm.pkg.github.com/@MyOrg"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/MyOrg/mylib.git",

For clean builds, you may want to install the rimraf package and add a clean or prebuild script to your package.json to remove any artifacts from your dist/ folder. Or, manually delete the dist/ folder yourself. Unless you are using a continuous integration service such as GitHub Actions, npm publish will ship anything inside the distributable folder.

package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "clean": "rimraf dist"
  }

Before you submit for the first time, make sure your package name is available by using npm search. If npm rejects your package name, update your package.json and resubmit.

npm search <term>

Once ready to submit your package to the NPM Registry, execute the following tasks via npm (or yarn):

npm run build

Assure the proper npm login:

npm login

Submit your package to the registry:

npm publish --access public