I have an internal project where I want to link a command to a file with bin. Like expect this package.json:
{
"name": "my-project",
"bin": {
"cli-name": "./bin/my-executable.js"
},
"dependencies": {
"node-red": "^1.0.0"
}
}
When executing npm install, all dependencies will be installed, and the bin configuration of node-red will be created too.
But my own bin will be completely ignored. It's not possible to use cli-name in cmd. It's necessary to execute npm link too, in a second step. Then cli-name will be available as command in console. I've even tried to use a postinstall script of npm with npm link in it, but then I got a loop ...
Is there a way to do this in one step on npm install?
There seems actually no build-in way to execute this tasks togeter automatically. So I've created an request for this feature directly to npm. It seems that a new command like npm il could be implemented.
I will updates this here when this or another way is available.