As bower slowly 'shuts down' I am finding it very difficult to migrate from bower to npm. I managed to get the DEV packages downloaded but I cannot seem to figure out how to use equivalent to 'main-bower-files' for npm. I found something similar 'main-npm-files' but there is no way to use the "override" method, similar to how bower uses, to point which files should be copied.
Can someone please guide me on how I can do this? If you need me to paste my package.json
here let me know.
I believe npmfiles might be what you are looking for (also on github).
Says it was heavily inspired by main-bower-files.
var mainNPMFiles = require('npmfiles');
var files = mainNPMFiles([options]);`
See that [options] tag above, that's where you can includes options to override which files are the main files in a package (exactly like main-bower-files).
{
"name": "your-package-name",
"dependencies": {
"NPM-PACKAGE": "*"
},
"overrides": {
"NPM-PACKAGE": {
"main": [
// override the main files or even ignore the package
]
}
}
}
It should require very little change in your gulpfile, since you're just replacing main-bower-files with main-npm-files.
gulp.task('TASKNAME', function() {
return gulp.src(mainNPMFiles())
.pipe(/* what you want to do with the files */)
});