@sveltejs/package Customize behavior of copying package.json and other essential files to the output directory when packaging a Svelte library

[bryanmylee]

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This resolves #6824.

For context, I'm building a cross-framework component library so I've set up a standard package structure for each framework in my monorepo with npm workspaces.

I'm using Vite with @sveltejs/package to develop and build my components. However, @sveltejs/package breaks my toolchain because it creates a copy of package.json in my dist folder.

npm workspaces picks up both the original package.json and dist/package.json, causing other dependent packages to break due to the duplication.

This PR adds a metadata filter function to allow disabling the copy feature for metadata files like package.json and other whitelisted essential files.

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All existing tests for @sveltejs/package pass and I added a test for the new config option.

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[dominikg]

fyi: the test fail in create-svelte is unrelated to this issue and a fix for that is pending in #6866

[dummdidumm]

Not 100% sure about the API yet but it's definitely going in the right direction. In the meantime, could you remove some of the unnecessary files from the tests? We don't need to have multiple Svelte files in there, copying them over and generating types for them is already checked in other tests. It should be enough to just have one index.js file.

[bryanmylee]

Any updates on this? I would love to have this merged into the package itself.

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[bryanmylee]

The failing test seems to be unrelated to svelte-package

[Rich-Harris]

Thank you for the PR. We ended up going in a different direction (#8825) — closing in favour of #8922