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🍒⛏📦 Build tool to generate proxy directories.
https://github.com/Andarist/cherry-pick
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🍒⛏📦 Build tool to generate proxy directories.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/Andarist/cherry-pick
- Owner: Andarist
- Created: 2018-05-12T12:41:13.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-05-02T16:34:42.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-26T01:32:11.631Z (19 days ago)
- Topics: build, build-tool, tool
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 37.1 KB
- Stars: 56
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 12
- Open Issues: 7
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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# cherry-pick 🍒⛏📦
Build tool to generate proxy directories with `package.json` files such as this:
```json
{
"name": "redux-saga/effects",
"private": true,
"main": "../lib/effects.js",
"module": "../es/effects.js"
}
```
## Why?
When it comes to "main" entry points of our libraries we have an _easy_ way for
supporting both CJS & ESM files with respectively `"main"` and `"module"` fields
in `package.json`. This allows resolution algorithms to chose a file with the
best format _automatically_. However if we have multiple files in a package and
we want all of them to be importable we often suggest to users doing it like
this:
```js
import module from "package/lib/module";
```
There are problems with this approach:
* it is often encouraging people to import files authored in CJS format, which
if produced with tools like [`babel`](https://github.com/babel/babel) has i.e.
interop helper functions deoptimizing imported file size when comparing to the
same file authored in ESM format. Also `webpack` just bails out on CJS files
when trying to optimize your application size with techniques such as
tree-shaking & scope hoisting (a.k.a module concatenation).
* it is exposing **internal directory structure** to the user. Why `lib` is in
the requested path? If you ship both CJS & ESM directories to `npm` and if
users would like to import appropriate file depending on the tool they are
"forced" to remember this and switch between importing the same thing with
paths like `package/lib/module` and `package/es/module`. This is a mental
overhead that can be avoided.
This technique was also described by me in more details in
[this article](https://developers.livechatinc.com/blog/how-to-create-javascript-libraries-in-2018-part-2#proxy-directories).
## CLI Options
### default
```
cherry-pick [input-dir]
Create proxy directories
Commands:
cherry-pick [input-dir] Create proxy directories [default]
cherry-pick clean [input-dir] Cleanup generated directories
Options:
--help, -h Show help [boolean]
--version, -v Show version number [boolean]
--cjs-dir [default: "lib"]
--esm-dir [default: "es"]
--types-dir
--cwd [default: "."]
--input-dir [default: "src"]
```
### clean
```
cherry-pick clean [input-dir]
Cleanup generated directories
Options:
--help, -h Show help [boolean]
--version, -v Show version number [boolean]
--cwd [default: "."]
--input-dir [default: "src"]
```
## JS API
`cherry-pick` exports a `default` method which creates proxy directories and
`clean` which removes them. Both accepts the same options as corresponding CLI
commands, only they are camelCased.
```js
const { default: cherryPick, clean } = require("cherry-pick");
cherryPick({ inputDir: "source" })
.then(cherryPicked =>
console.log(`Created proxy directories: ${cherryPicked.join(", ")}`)
)
.then(() => clean({ inputDir: "source" }))
.then(removed =>
console.log(`Removed proxy directories: ${Removed.join(", ")}`)
);
```