Run prepublish script from package.json on apm publish

[Glavin001]

Applicable apm code: https://github.com/atom/apm/blob/6c94d96f5d640a51d49a41e2e1d1aa47310516e8/src/publish.coffee

I would like to use the prepublish script in package.json file, as described by npm, to generate my documentation before publishing. See https://github.com/Glavin001/atom-beautify/blob/master/package.json#L150

This currently does not work / is not a feature. Is this something that is of interest to others? Would a pull request be accepted? What other considerations does the community have, before / if I were to develop a Pull Request?

Thanks!

Glavin

[kevinsawicki]

Is this something that is of interest to others?

Yeah, this issue has come up before as something that would be great to eventually have first-class support for.

Would a pull request be accepted?

👍

What other considerations does the community have, before / if I were to develop a Pull Request?

There is a publish-spec.coffee already so I'd say add new specs there, and add a simple package fixture that includes a prepublish script.

Also this will require doing a git commit after running the script right? Since the built assets will need to be part of the repository before the tag is pushed and the atom.io API is hit.

[Glavin001]

These notes are mostly for me and any others not familiar with npm and apm internals. I like to document my research in Issues before I start development. Please correct me on anything that I missed. Thanks!

Here is publish from npm: https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/180da67c9fa53103d625e2f031626c2453c7ebcd/lib/publish.js#L74
And publish specs: https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/180da67c9fa53103d625e2f031626c2453c7ebcd/test/tap/prepublish.js

Also this will require doing a git commit after running the script right? Since the built assets will need to be part of the repository before the tag is pushed and the atom.io API is hit.

I think you're right.

• npm version requires that it be a clean Git working directory
  • See https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/cc41475f0e237e07cf436487126b96a893dfcc85/lib/version.js#L152
  • From https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/version:

If run in a git repo, it will also create a version commit and tag, and fail if the repo is not clean.

• npm publish does not deal with git and just flows down the lifecycle: https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/180da67c9fa53103d625e2f031626c2453c7ebcd/lib/publish.js#L74-L77
  • npm stores its own copy of the code and does not use Git/GitHub as reference. Therefore it does not care about committing before prepublish and publish stages as it never makes a git commit anywhere and pushes whatever code is available when publish is executed.
• apm publish uses npm version internally and not npm publish.
  • See

    apm/src/publish.coffee

    Lines 56 to 57 in b47423d

    	versionArgs = ['version', version, '-m', 'Prepare %s release']
    	@fork @atomNpmPath, versionArgs, (code, stderr='', stdout='') =>

  • Therefore we will need to run prepublish and then git commit (if applicable), then run npm version and the other lifecycle stages, including postpublish -- might as well add that, too, as it should not be as complicated.

I would prefer that it be included under the Prepare # release commit, however this is handled mostly by npm version, which checks for the clean git working directory. See

apm/src/publish.coffee

Line 56 in b47423d

versionArgs = ['version', version, '-m', 'Prepare %s release']

and https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/cc41475f0e237e07cf436487126b96a893dfcc85/lib/version.js#L152

So let's consider what should happen when running apm publish:

• run prepublish script
• check if it exitted successfully
  • show error message if applicable
  • continue if successful
• check if changes to staging area and commit if available?
  • What would the commit message be? Preparing to prepare # release? 😜
• continue to run publish as normal, which includes incrementing version and publishing to apm API
• run postpublish if all successful

I'd like to design and implement a Pull Request in these next few days. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[danielbayley]

+1 for this!

[ghost]

Huge 👍

This is preventing me from packing static resources. It seems I have no choice but to download static resources on activation, which is unnecessary extra work and dirty too.

On a related note, the prepublish script is executed when I run apm install myuser/mypackage where myuser/mypackage is the GitHub repo reference of the package, but not when I run apm install mypackage, where mypackage is the name of the Atom package as published on atom.io. Unfortunately I need the latter to work, because obviously users will install from the package browser, and not by running apm install github-ref.

[aminya]

Is there any update or workaround for this?