Execute node script with nwb

[kabriel]

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• [ ] Bug report
• [X] Feature request
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It would be great if I could create arbitrary node scripts and add them to my project and use nwb to execute them. This would be required so it would use the same settings as nwb; for example it would use the same babel configuration.

"scripts": { "tool": "nwb exec ./scripts/tool" }

Hopefully this makes sense. The above would let me use npm run tool and it would execute the ./scripts/tool js file and support the same code features (es6 etc) as the rest of my app.

[insin]

I've had similar thoughts about nwb exposing a way to run some of the tooling it's already managing dependencies for - e.g. I have to add and manage Babel and MochadevDependencies to transpile and test server code when I'm using nwb for Express middleware and client building/testing in the same project.

To whet the appetite:

nwb babel run ./scripts/tool --config=./scripts/tool.nwbconfig.js
nwb babel transpile src/ lib/ --config=server.nwbconfig.js
nwb mocha something something

I'd also add support for using babel-preset-env as part of this, as it's what I use for Node.js code.