Shims are not available in NPM package

[thomas-jakemeyn]

Context

I am trying to add FilerWebpackPlugin to an existing Webpack configuration.

Problem

All imports of fs are properly replaced by node_modules/filer/shims/fs.js. However, that file cannot be found.

Analysis

The shims are not made available in the NPM package.

[humphd]

I've shipped v1.3.1 to npm, do you want to try that? https://github.com/filerjs/filer/releases/tag/v1.3.1

[thomas-jakemeyn]

Hello @humphd,

As far as I can see, the shims are still missing in the NPM library v1.3.1. Also, I quickly checked the history and I could not find any commit that would have fixed this problem.

[humphd]

cc @bcheidemann

[bcheidemann]

@humphd the "shims" directory in the root of the project needs to be released to NPM. Could you advise on what changes need to be made to facilitate this? Happy to put up a PR.

[bcheidemann]

@thomas-jakemeyn this is the workaround until the files are released to NPM:

1. Copy the 'shims' directory from this repo into your project. This can be wherever you want but for arguments sake lets say you copy the contents to src/filer/shims.
2. You then need to update the following imports:

   
   // src/filer/shims/fs.js
   // replace
   const { FileSystem } = require('../src/index');
   // with
   const { FileSystem } = require('filer');

// src/filer/shims/path.js // replace const { path } = require('../src/index'); // with const { path } = require('filer');

// src/filer/shims/providers/default.js // replace const { Default } = require('../../src/providers/index'); // with const { Default } = require('filer/src/providers/index');

// src/filer/shims/providers/indexeddb.js // replace const IndexedDB = require('../../src/providers/indexeddb'); // with const IndexedDB = require('filer/src/providers/indexeddb');

// src/filer/shims/providers/memory.js // replace const Memory = require('../../src/providers/memory'); // with const Memory = require('filer/src/providers/memory');

3. Instantiate the `FilerWebpackPlugin` class with the following options
```javascript
// webpack.config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new filer.FilerWebpackPlugin({
      shimsDir: '<rootDir>/src/filer/shims`,
    }),
  ],
}

This should work but I haven't tested it and I appreciate it's a lot of effort to go to. Hopefully it will be possible to release a new version of filer which includes the shims and webpack folders soon.

[humphd]

@bcheidemann ah, I see. We need to update https://github.com/filerjs/filer/blob/master/package.json#L77-L81 and potentially the build script to copy things where they are expected when you npm install filer. If you want to do that, that would be great.

[humphd]

Should be fixed by v1.4.1

[bcheidemann]

Confirmed, shims are now present :)