aurelia-cli-pacman

Experimental: this project is a work in progress.

aurelia-cli-pacman

Aurelia-cli-pacman is a simple package management helper for projects using aurelia-cli. It supports npm package installation/removal, and configuration of pre-defined bundle dependencies in aurelia.json. This project's main goal is to enhance the package/plugin configuration process while using aurelia-cli for development.

1. Installation

Since it's an extension to aurelia-cli, it cannot be used with JSPM or WebPack.

npm install aurelia-cli-pacman --save

1.1 pacman helper task for aurelia-cli

Since aurelia-cli is still in alpha stage and install command is not yet implemented, I've created this custom cli task to enhance configuration of plugin dependencies in aurelia.json. It adds a pre-configured set of dependencies to aurelia.json, if there's any. A post-install npm script takes care of placing this new pacman.ts|js task into aurelia_project/tasks folder.

2. Usage

Parameters	Description
--install, i <bundle-file.js>	Install npm package and sets bundle dependencies. Calls npm install --save
--uninstall, u <bundle-file.js>	Uninstall npm package and removes bundle dependencies. Calls npm uninstall --save
--bundle, b <bundle-file.js>	Set bundle section to be modified
--force, f	Overwrite previously set dependencies (applies only to dependencies of specified package! It won't delete the whole bundle setting.)

Run au pacman helper:

au pacman --install <package name> [--bunde <custom-bundle-filename>] [--force]
au pacman i aurelia-validation --bunde plugin-bundle.js --force

au pacman u aurelia-validation

Note: tested on Windows platform only.

2.1 Pre-defined bundle dependencies

There is a small dependency collection for several basic aurelia plugins and other npm packages in ./registry folder.

3. Dependencies

• aurelia-cli
• fs-extra

4. Platform Support

This extension can be used with NodeJS only. It's executed within aurelia-cli infrastructure. Supported NodeJS version: 4.x or above.