npm-install-tmp

Temporary installs a npm package and automatically cleans up the resources afterwards.

Installation

npm install npm-install-tmp --save

Usage

import {use} from 'npm-install-tmp';

// Pass the name of the package you want to include (e.g. example or example@latest)
use('example')
    .then(example => {
        // do what ever you want
    });

After the process exited all the resource are cleaned up automatically.

Tests

npm install
npm test

Dependencies

• @types/node: TypeScript definitions for Node.js
• npm: a package manager for JavaScript
• tmp: Temporary file and directory creator

Dev Dependencies

• rimraf: A deep deletion module for node (like rm -rf)
• tslint: An extensible static analysis linter for the TypeScript language
• typescript: TypeScript is a language for application scale JavaScript development

License

MIT