Make bin scripts work local npm dependencies.
npm install link-bin
Should be used as a post-install npm hook
Let's say you wanna put the following atom-shell app on npm
#!/usr/bin/env atom-shell
// this is an atom-shell app that just shows an empty screen
var app = require('app')
var BrowserWindow = require('browser-window')
app.on('ready', function () {
var win = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600,
show: true
})
})Luckily atom-shell is installable through npm.
If you save the above file as app.js you can then create the following package.json file
{
"name": "my-atom-shell-app",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "my atom-shell app",
"bin": "app.js",
"scripts": {
"install": "link-bin"
},
"dependencies": {
"atom-shell": "^0.21.3-1",
"link-bin": "^1.0.0"
}
}If you publish the above program to npm other people will be able to npm install -g my-atom-shell-app
and run my-atom-shell-app to execute the atom-shell app (even if they don't have atom-shell installed already)
To test it you can also run npm install -g . in the folder where you added the above app.js and package.json files.
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