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Is it possible to change the root directory of my Node.js npm package when I do a publish? What I have is following:
├── lib
├── package.json
├── .npmignore
├── src
│ ├── index.js
│ └── sub
│ └── mymodule.js
└── test
In /src is all of my ES2015 source code. I transpile that with Babel into my /lib directory. The main in my package.json points to lib/index.js. After that I can make a npm publish (my .npmignore is set to src so only lib will be published). Now my package is deployed to npmjs.com and in another package I can import it with import index from 'mypackage'.
So far so good. But what if I want to import sub/mymodule.js directly? I have to write import mymodule from 'mypackage/lib/sub/mymodule'. What I really want is import mymodule from 'mypackage/sub/mymodule' without /lib/ in my path.
How can I achieve this? The npm documentation mentioned directories.lib that I can set in package.json but it seems it will be completely ignored. I set it to ./lib but it does nothing.
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By default npm will publish to the public registry. This can be overridden by specifying a different default registry or using a scope in the name (see package. json ).
When you run npm publish , npm bundles up all the files in the current directory. It makes a few decisions for you about what to include and what to ignore. To make these decisions, it uses the contents of several files in your project directory.
You can publish your /lib directory instead with npm publish lib.
Remember to copy your package.json file to the lib directory before publish.
A suggestion is to use npm scripts:
"scripts": {
"build": "babel src --out-dir lib",
"prepublish": "npm run build && cp ./package.json lib"
}
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