I am building a npm module, in which I want to include two directories : /dist and /demo.
So far, my approach was to use the 'files' attribute, in package.json :
"files": [
"dist",
"demo"
]
When running npm pack, the tgz files successfully contains the demo folder, and the built files in /dist.
However, during the build phase, I added a shell script that is copying some files (generated mylib.js and mylib.css) to the /demo directory. And my problem is that npm pack does not care about these specific files, which are not included in the tgz (despite I can see them in my explorer).
However, if the shell script make changes to the content of /demo/index.html, these changes are included in the tgz.
How could I include the missing files?
Seems that I misinterpretated the problem: if the files were not in the tgz, it is because I add a .gitignore in /demo, ignoring js and css files. As I really don't want this files to be commited, the solution was to add a .npmignore file, with no rule matching css/js