Make your Alfred workflows installable from npm
$ npm install --save alfred-link
Add the alfred-link command as postinstall script of your Alfred package.
{
"name": "alfred-unicorn",
"scripts": {
"postinstall": "alfred-link"
}
}You can now install the alfred-unicorn package like this
$ npm install -g alfred-unicorn.
This will update info.plist with the information from package.json and creates a unicorn symlink inside the Alfred workflows directory that points to the location of the alfred-unicorn module.
This package will update the info.plist file when the workflow is being installed. The following properties in info.plist can be safely omitted. The corresponding values in package.json are added to the plist file.
| info.plist | package.json | example "name": "alfred-package-name" |
|---|---|---|
| version | version | |
| description | description | |
| webaddress | homepage | |
| createdby | author.name | |
| name | name (to title case) or config.name |
Package Name |
| bundleid | name (to dot case) or config.bundleid |
com.authorname.packagename |
| category | config.category | |
| variables | config.variables | { "PATH": "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" } |
| readme | config.readme | Import from README if true |
When developing an Alfred workflow, you can call alfred-link directly from your cli. Either by installing alfred-link globally or by calling alfred-link from your node_modules/.bin directory. This will create a symlink in the Alfred workflows directory pointing to your development location without transforming info.plist.
$ ./node_modules/.bin/alfred-link
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