isotropic-dev-dependencies

A shared package of common development dependencies and configurations used across Isotropic modules.

Why Use This?

Single Source of Truth: Maintain consistent development dependencies across multiple projects
Version Synchronization: Update dependencies in one place and propagate to all dependent projects
Shared Configurations: Common configuration files for Babel, ESLint, c8, and other tools
Simplified Setup: Easy integration of standard development tools with minimal boilerplate
Git Hooks: Automated setup of git hooks for commit validation

Installation

npm install --save-dev isotropic-dev-dependencies

Features

Bundled Dependencies

This package bundles common development dependencies to ensure consistency across projects:

Build Tools: Babel (CLI, core, presets)
Testing: Mocha, Chai
Code Coverage: c8 with Istanbul
Linting: ESLint with Isotropic plugin
Utilities: cross-env, fs-extra, globals

Shared Configurations

Babel: Multiple environment configurations for different build targets
c8: Code coverage configuration with high standards (100% coverage targets)
ESLint: Standard linting rules for both CommonJS and ES modules
Git Hooks: Pre-commit hooks for validation

Usage

Basic Setup

After installing the package, you can reference its configurations in your project:

// package.json
{
    "scripts": {
        "build": "cross-env BABEL_ENV=node-minify babel --config-file ./node_modules/isotropic-dev-dependencies/config/babel.json js -d lib --delete-dir-on-start",
        "lint": "eslint js test",
        "test": "cross-env BABEL_ENV=test c8 -c ./node_modules/isotropic-dev-dependencies/config/c8.json mocha --import=isotropic-dev-dependencies/lib/register-babel-loader.js"
    }
}

The cross-env utility fixes issues setting inline environment variables in certain runtime environments.

Babel Configuration

The package provides multiple Babel environments:

browser: Modern browsers (last 2 years)
browser-minify: Browser targets with minification
browser-minify-no-mangle: Minification without name mangling
node: Current Node.js (ESM)
node-cjs: Current Node.js (CommonJS)
node-minify: Node.js with minification
test: Testing environment with code coverage

To use in your build scripts:

cross-env BABEL_ENV=node-minify babel --config-file ./node_modules/isotropic-dev-dependencies/config/babel.json js -d lib

ESLint Integration

Set up ESLint with the shared configuration.

eslint-module.js: Configuration for ES modules
eslint-commonjs.js: Configuration for CommonJS modules

// eslint.config.js
export {
    default
} from 'isotropic-dev-dependencies/lib/eslint-module.js';

When your package depends on isotropic-dev-dependencies it will automatically bring in eslint because isotropic-dev-dependencies depends on eslint. However, a lot of packages depend on eslint. If you have other dependencies that also depend on eslint, you may have to declare eslint as a dependency of your package to ensure that you get the correct version of eslint.

Testing with Mocha and Chai

// test/test.js
import _chai from 'isotropic-dev-dependencies/lib/chai.js';
import _mocha from 'isotropic-dev-dependencies/lib/mocha.js';

_mocha.describe('My Test Suite', () => {
    _mocha.it('should pass', () => {
        _chai.expect(true).to.be.true;
    });
});

Then set your test script to:

cross-env BABEL_ENV=test c8 -c ./node_modules/isotropic-dev-dependencies/config/c8.json mocha --import=isotropic-dev-dependencies/lib/register-babel-loader.js

c8 Configuration

100% coverage requirements for statements, branches, functions, and lines
LCOV and text-summary reporters
Inline source maps

Git Hooks

Git hooks are automatically installed during the prepare script. They validate committer information against package.json author and contributors.

Examples

Complete package.json Setup

{
    "name": "my-package",
    "devDependencies": {
        "eslint": "~9.8.0",
        "isotropic-dev-dependencies": "~0.3.0"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "build": "cross-env BABEL_ENV=node-minify babel --config-file ./node_modules/isotropic-dev-dependencies/config/babel.json js -d lib --delete-dir-on-start",
        "lint": "eslint js test",
        "postprepare": "node ./node_modules/isotropic-dev-dependencies/lib/install-git-hooks.js",
        "posttest": "[ -z \"$npm_config_coverage\" ] || c8 -c ./node_modules/isotropic-dev-dependencies/config/c8.json check-coverage",
        "prepare": "npm run build",
        "prepublishOnly": "npm test --coverage",
        "pretest": "npm run lint",
        "test": "cross-env BABEL_ENV=test c8 -c ./node_modules/isotropic-dev-dependencies/config/c8.json mocha --import=isotropic-dev-dependencies/lib/register-babel-loader.js"
    },
    "type": "module",
    "version": "0.0.0"
}

Contributing

Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

Issues

If you encounter any issues, please file them at https://github.com/ibi-group/isotropic-dev-dependencies/issues