Dependencies Linker

Link your npm dependencies to serve them to the front-end.

Automatically link your project's dependency files to a folder like public/scripts so that you can serve them to the front end.

Install

npm install --save-dev dep-linker

Use

var depLinker = require('dep-linker');
depLinker.linkDependenciesTo('./public/scripts')
  .then(() => console.log('Finished.'));
  // Done! All your dependencies ready to be served to the front-end

dev-dependencies are not linked.

Task runners

There still isn't a specific wrapper for any task runner, but given that this is just javascript for now you can use it like this and it will work like a charm:

Gulp

var depLinker = require('dep-linker');

gulp.task('link-dependencies', function () {
  return depLinker.linkDependenciesTo('./public/scripts');
});

Grunt

var depLinker = require('dep-linker');

grunt.task.registerTask('link-dependencies', 'Copy npm dependencies', function () {
    var done = this.async(); // <-- must be async
    return depLinker.linkDependenciesTo('public/scripts')
      .then(() => done())
      .catch(() => done());
});

Options

Set root folder

dep-linker gets your dependencies from your package.json which is in your project's root folder. If the script is not being run from the root folder, specify the path to it:

var depLinker = require('dep-linker');
depLinker.setRoot('../../');