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Raphael Westphal
Raphael Westphal

Reputation: 83

Compile from source in package.json

I'm looking to specifiy that i want that one of my depedencies needs to be compiled from source in package.json to npm. I searched in google but I didn't found any way to do this. Is it simply possible ?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 5386

Answers (1)

Eric N
Eric N

Reputation: 2206

Steps like compiling would be executed during either a "prepublish" or "install" script hook: https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scripts

And npm recommends using gyp to create build scripts necessary for packages: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp

Upvotes: 3

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