kolibri-update-dependencies

Kolibri tools

Contains various scripts for maintaining the Kolibri framework. Installing this repository via npm makes the contained scripts available as command line binaries.

Each of the scripts should be ducumented below:

kolibri-lint

Standard kolibri linter. Uses jslint along with some settings to do Kolibri-specific code linting.

kolibri-update-dependencies

Problem

• We want to split the Kolibri JavaScript codebase beween several folders within ProFile/trunk (called modules) in order to be able to share code between different frontend projects.
• We want to be able to use a single webpack-dev-server to hot reload code from several modules
• We want each different module to be able to have external npm dependencies, which would then be included by any other module depending on this module

package.json does not support requiring local folders as packages without copying them to node_modules or using the link feature. In other words there is no easy way to share dependencies between the kolibri modules, without invoking npm packaging and versioning.

Solution

Although it is a bit hacky, we can use a script to automatically fill in packages into package.json based on a separate dependencies.local.js file at the root of each module. This file can contain npm dependencies as well as a list of local module dependencies, whose own dependencies.local.js will be consulted.

Here is an example dependencies.local.js:

module.exports = {
  subprojectDependencies: [
    "../dfr-kolibri-core"
  ],
  npmDependencies: {
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.16.0"
  }
};

kolibri-update-dependencies, automatically fills in package.json based on local dependencies.local.js files, which in turn may require modules, automatically including their dependencies as well.