tl;dr: tiny util that shebangs your bundled file
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like the offerings of parcel-bundler
, and webpack
are missing a crucial lib to do with the usability of bundled command line utilites:
You need to be able to actually run them.
So, I wrote a tiny util to take a bundled js
file, slap a shebang on top, move it into a bin folder, and give it executable perms. I've been passing this around a few of my cli
util projects for a while, and figured it was high time to make it official. So now it is!
tl;dr: yarn add -D shebang-it && npx shebang-it
shebang-it
takes a single argument: the folder path to the file you'd like made executable, and it defaults to dist
it can also take the following optional properties if you want to get creative with creating tons of different bin
files:
Arg | Longform | Description | Example |
---|---|---|---|
-i | --input-filename | custom filename for the assumed dist util |
shebang-it -i windex.js |
-o | --output-filename | custom filename for the output bin util |
shebang-it -o shebang-it.js |
As part of my build process with husky
and lint-staged
, I like generating the files automatically. That way, in a precommit, the bin
file will always be up to date, and when using the np
library to push updates to npm
there won't be anything to blame for the right code not landing.
tl;dr: Mostly dev cleanup
THE ISSUE
0. PATCH OUR DEFAULT BACK OUT WHEN THE ISSUE IS RESOLVED
signale issue
np issue
ava issue
It seems like execa (another sindresorhus package) hijacks the output stream. This meant that any cli package using
shebang-it
would explode when trying to usenp
to update itself. That's super annoying. It seems like a lower priority thing, so in the meantime, I've added a small bit of code to default the stdio stream if it's not present to a nooplike thing. I'm unhappy with this, and want it gone ASAP.
- add it to project-status
- generate a couple badges
- add it to travis-ci
- report coverage
- report test percentage
- report code quality
- add option for silent execution
- add a ricky-martin themed svg logo