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#Npm install from github download

Thankfully, before I did that, I stumbled across a great article that introduced me to the prepare script in package.json. I thought the only option to work around this was to commit our dist folder to Git. That way npm gets your compiled assets and doesn’t need to know anything about your build process.īut when you install your package directly from Git, those compiled assets aren’t there, because we’ve added them to the gitignore file. When you host your package on npm, you explicitly run a publish command, which runs locally and has access to your compiled assets. Use the “prepare” script to build your library

Set the token as an environment variable.

Create a GitHub “Machine User” with read-only access.

Allow your server to access your private Git-hosted npm package.

Use the “prepare” script to build your library.

Add a package.json file if you don’t have one.

Make your pattern library an npm package.

I went through this recently, and it was complex enough that I thought documenting it in a blog post would be useful.

Private npm packages are available, but they cost money and aren’t an option for every team. However, this can be a lot more complicated if your pattern library lives in a private Git repository, because npm packages are public by default. Instead, you should consider making it available as an npm package.

#Npm install from github download

You could simply provide download links for the CSS and other assets, but then your users can’t easily get any updates to the pattern library. So you’ve got a pattern library: Congratulations! The next step is making it possible for other people to use those patterns.