write up on some ways to publish extensions #1660
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| We recommend reading [GitHub's Releases Documentation](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/administering-a-repository/managing-releases-in-a-repository) for how to actually do the steps of a release. | ||
| The following will be a quick walk through on how to make the tarball which will be the released file. | ||
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| ### Making a Tarball of your extension |
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I think npm pack is the easiest way to create a valid tarball?
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Ah cool, didn't know about that one. I was stumbling around trying to use tar and find and then I found this. I tried it on the lens repo and npm pack adds a bunch of not-needed files (ones that are .gitignore-ed). Should I add that as another option or keep this?
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Plain tarball is not a valid npm package so I think we should only document npm pack.
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I meant this as a way for creating the tarball for github releases but sure I can document npm pack instead.
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Plain tarball does not work, Lens accepts only npm packages .
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Malton <sebastian@malton.name>
| npm view <extension-name> dist.tarball | ||
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| This will output the link that they will need to give to lens to install your extension. |
Signed-off-by: Jari Kolehmainen <jari.kolehmainen@gmail.com>
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@Nokel81 @panuhorsmalahti I tweaked the text to underline a fact that Lens needs a NPM tarball. |
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@jakolehm looks good to me. Though you will have to approve since it is a PR in my name. |
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@nevalla PTAL |
* write up on some ways to publish extensions Signed-off-by: Sebastian Malton <sebastian@malton.name> * tweak text Signed-off-by: Jari Kolehmainen <jari.kolehmainen@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Jari Kolehmainen <jari.kolehmainen@gmail.com>
* write up on some ways to publish extensions Signed-off-by: Sebastian Malton <sebastian@malton.name> * tweak text Signed-off-by: Jari Kolehmainen <jari.kolehmainen@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Jari Kolehmainen <jari.kolehmainen@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Sebastian Malton <sebastian@malton.name>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Malton sebastian@malton.name
resolves #1611