Universe Modules NPM

Extension for package universe:modules that adds possibility of bundling npm packages into universe modules.

And you can use it, just like that:

import cn from '{username:mypackage}/packages/classnames';

How It works

Into Package

Create file .npm.json, like packages.import-npm.json and add it to package.js by api.addFiles
In package.js add dependency universe:modules-npm
Add some packages under key dependencies (as a name:version pairs) to this file:

{
  "dependencies": {
      "classnames": "2.1.3",
      // You can even attach comments here
      "typographic-numbers": "0.2.1"
  }
}

You can import already added packages.

import classNames from '{username:mypackage}/packages/classnames';
import typographicNumbers from '{username:mypackage}/packages/typographic-numbers';

In app

You can use It outside of package too. To do that please create and add in application space file myfile.npm.json. And now, you can import something like this: import classNames from 'myfile/classnames'

Options

This package uses browserify for bundling. You can pass options in the same file under key browserify to make changes on this process

{
  "dependencies": {
     "browserify-global-shim": "1.0.0"
  },
  "browserify": {
      "transforms": {
      //using react from meteor package in npm modules
        "browserify-global-shim": {
          "react": "Package['react-runtime'].React"
        }
      }
  }
}

Earlier example shows how add transformation that exposes globals as modules so they can be required

Restrictions

Because in bundling process, this package uses a browserify. Only browserifyable npm packages will work correctly. If you want use none browserifyable packages please use meteor npm and next, export them as regular module.

Copyright and license

This package is part of Universe, a package ecosystem based on Meteor platform maintained by Vazco. It works as standalone Meteor package, but you can get much more features when using the whole system.