fix(cli): prevent generate task from crashing

.github/workflows/test-component-starter.yml

@@ -103,3 +103,34 @@ jobs:
         run: npm run test -- --no-build # the project was just built, don't build it again
         working-directory: ./tmp-component-starter
         shell: bash
+
+      - name: Test npx stencil generate
+        # `stencil generate` doesn't have a way to skip file generation, so we provide it with a component name and run
+        # `echo` with a newline to select "all files" to generate (and use -e to interpret that backslash for a newline)
+        run: echo -e '\n' | npm run generate -- hello-world
+        working-directory: ./tmp-component-starter
+        shell: bash
+
+      - name: Verify Files Exist
+        run: |
+          file_list=(
+            src/components/hello-world/hello-world.tsx
+            src/components/hello-world/hello-world.css
+            src/components/hello-world/test/hello-world.spec.tsx
+            src/components/hello-world/test/hello-world.e2e.ts
+          )
+          for file in "${file_list[@]}"; do
+              if [ -f "$file" ]; then
+                  echo "File '$file' exists."
+              else
+                  echo "File '$file' does not exist."
+                  exit 1
+              fi
+          done
+        working-directory: ./tmp-component-starter
+        shell: bash
+
+      - name: Test Generated Files
+        run: npm run test
+        working-directory: ./tmp-component-starter
+        shell: bash

scripts/esbuild/cli.ts

@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ export async function buildCli(opts: BuildOptions) {
   const dtsFilename = 'index.d.ts';
 
   const cliAliases = getEsbuildAliases();
+  // this isn't strictly necessary to alias - however, this minimizes cuts down the bundle size by ~70kb.
+  cliAliases['prompts'] = 'prompts/lib/index.js';
 
   const external = getEsbuildExternalModules(opts, opts.output.cliDir);
 

scripts/esbuild/util.ts

@@ -26,10 +26,9 @@ export function getEsbuildAliases(): Record<string, string> {
 
     // mapping node.js module names to `sys/node` "cache"
     //
-    // these allow us to bundle and ship a dependency (like `prompts`) as part
+    // these allow us to bundle and ship a dependency (like `glob`) as part
     // of the Stencil distributable but also have our separate bundles
     // reference the same file
-    prompts: './sys/node/prompts.js',
     glob: './sys/node/glob.js',
 
     // dev server related aliases