Automate publication to npm for 2-3 datasets

[rufuspollock]

Top level: as a JS/node user i want to import core data into my app natively using the node / js package manager so that I don't have to learn any new tool and i get great data easily.

We have done one dataset by hand. Automate what we did by hand and extend to another 1-2 popular dataset e.g. country-codes currency-codes.

Acceptance criteria

• [x] script for automating generation of node branch
• [x] 1-2 more datasets on npm

TODO: @Mikanebu proper analysis.

Tasks

• [x] proper analysis
• [x] prepare country-codes
• [x] prepare currency-codes
• [x] update travis.yml to publish automatically on npm

Analysis

Since we have created a script with the methods and included json version for data itself. There are some parts need to be done manually.

• Manual work

  • create a script with methods to get data
  • create json version of data(can be downloaded from datahub.io)
  • updated README.md with usage

• Automation

  • update travis.yml to create new branch and keep it up to date with master
  • auto-publish to npm

• Datasets to be added into npm

  • country-codes
  • currency-codes

• For publishing to npm we will use separate branch

[anuveyatsu]

@Mikanebu do you think we need to create a script for getting data like we did for country-list dataset? I suppose just letting people to import JSON version of dataset from NPM is good enough so they can work out what they need from that point.

[Mikanebu]

@anuveyatsu ok, when we implemented with @AcckiyGerman we thought it would be nice to have methods to get data... But I think, just providing json would be enough for these datasets. In country-codes there will be too many methods to cover all cases...

[AcckiyGerman]

We created those methods for the backward compatibility (the original npm package had them). There is no need of those methods in new packages I think.

[Mikanebu]

Country-codes is live https://www.npmjs.com/package/@datasets/country-codes

[Mikanebu]

Currency-codes is live https://www.npmjs.com/package/@datasets/currency-codes

[rufuspollock]

@Mikanebu :clap: - can you document how this is automated and where. A big goal here was to automate the process rather than do this by hand (or at least learn how to do that).

/cc @akariv

[Mikanebu]

I cannot automate as I mentioned in my analysis. For now I published country-codes and currency-codes manually.

[zelima]

Moving this to the backlog for now, as it remains untouched.

@Mikanebu could you please describe what exactly is the blocker here? I do not see anything explaining that in the analysis section.

[anuveyatsu]

FIXED for:

• https://github.com/datasets/country-list
• https://github.com/datasets/country-codes (awaiting to merge the PR)
• https://github.com/datasets/currency-codes

[anuveyatsu]

Closing it as FIXED now. We're only waiting for https://github.com/datasets/country-codes/pull/68 to be merged.