How to create bin command

[davistsin]

This library is great and helps me a lot. 👍 You all are the best in the universe.

I need to create a bin command in the library, but I added it in the project, and I didn't find this command in example/node_modules/bin.

I created the command file in the outermost src/bin, defined bin in package.json, then made the command point to the compiled file:

// package.json
...
  "scripts": {
    "test": "jest",
    "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",
    "lint": "eslint \"**/*.{js,ts,tsx}\"",
    "prepack": "bob build",
    "release": "release-it --only-version",
    "example": "yarn --cwd example",
    "example-ios": "yarn example ios",
    "example-android": "yarn example android",
    "bootstrap": "yarn example && yarn install && yarn example pods",
    "clean": "del-cli android/build example/android/build example/android/app/build example/ios/build"
  },
  "bin": {
    "build-bundle": "./lib/commonjs/bin/build_bundle.js"
  },

Then run yarn, but did not see this command in example/node_modules/bin. I hope this library can support this feature.

[atlj]

Hey, thank you for the discussion. I think the main problem here would be that we are not using npm or yarn to "link" the libraries to the example app. It's all done by modifying the babel.config.js, metro.config.js, and the react-native.config.js. So there is no node_modules involved in the process.
A good solution might be to migrate the workflow into a monorepo which we are currently working on.

For a quick workaround, you can:

1. Go to example/package.json
2. Add a script to call your binary

"scripts": {
    "build-bundle": "node ../lib/commonjs/bin/build_bundle.js"
  },

3. Call yarn build-bundle to invoke your script.

I know this is a trivial solution but should work for the moment being.