Feature: creation of Node.js package

[mledoze]

Feature: creation of Node.js package

[mledoze]

I don't see the need for this, for now. This repository simply contains data and has no (JavaScript) features, so it would made no sense to create a node.js package for this. I think you should use what git provides to keep up with the changes.

[Nomeasmo]

Good idea. So using git submodule is even smarter. Thanks

[mledoze]

You're welcome!

[tonytamps]

You can NPM and Bower install from a Git repo.
From there you can write a simple lib to parse the json (or whatever you like) into your application and require it like normal.

You can manage versions and deployment in this way if you would like.

[ruimarinho]

@tonytamps it's not currently possible to do this via npm without having a package.json. I personally don't see any issue in publishing to npm at all. @mledoze, could you please review this issue again?

Take a look at the package from substack which does something similar. https://github.com/substack/provinces (npm module).

[tonytamps]

Yes, you can. https://coderwall.com/p/_bbeda

[ruimarinho]

@tonytamps you can install a package from github (or any other git repo for that matter), but it needs to have a package.json available as mentioned on my previous comment.

From [https://www.npmjs.org/doc/cli/npm-install.html](npm-install docs):

A package is:
a) a folder containing a program described by a package.json file
b) a gzipped tarball containing (a)
g) a <git remote url> that resolves to (b)

[mledoze]

@ruimarinho you are right but why do you need a npm package? Is it to manage versions and updates?

Doing var countries = require('countries.json'); will give you an array of objects which you can easily manipulate.

[ruimarinho]

I'm using the list of countries on the https://github.com/seegno/co-authy node.js client, but the data itself has been versioned on that repository. If I could npm install countries, then I wouldn't need that, in addition to keep up-to-date with the latest version simply by updating the package version.

[mledoze]

@ruimarinho here it is https://www.npmjs.org/package/world-countries (in f915449)

[ruimarinho]

@mledoze thank you so much! Appreciated.

[mledoze]

You're welcome! I hope this will facilitate the use of this dataset.

As you can see this is the first module I publish, do not hesitate to come back to me if something is wrong.

[ruimarinho]

Everything worked perfectly @mledoze. ruimarinho/co-authy@7027161 I think it will be very popular on npm :)

[mledoze]

@ruimarinho

I think it will be very popular on npm

I very much hope so!