Move to CLI/bin approach

[janniks]

@coolaj86 I released a preview as 2.0.0-beta

Can be tested via npx with the -p package specifier:

npx -p basetag@2.0.0-beta basetag
npx -p basetag@2.0.0-beta basetag link
npx -p basetag@2.0.0-beta basetag link

[janniks]

Unfortunately, the postinstall tag only works for packages that are being installed. i.e. when we use postinstall in projects that are supposed to be used with basetag (e.g. project-alice), that postinstall script is not executed whenever dependencies are installed via npm install for projects-allice. But rather when somebody installs project-alice as a dependency...

I found an alternative though:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/51155609/1139105
• https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v6/using-npm/scripts#hook-scripts

I will try to integrate this into the basetag link command this week.

[coolaj86]

Unfortunately, the postinstall tag only works for packages that are being installed.

If I have { "postinstall": "npx basetag" } in my own package.json, and it works as expected. Every time I run npm install, npx basetag runs after, putting the link back in place.

[coolaj86]

I haven't tried this out yet, but it looks like .hooks/postinstall is equivalent to package.json.scripts.postinstall from the description.

[janniks]

Interesting, I thought I tried that earlier. I could swear it doesn't work. Will try again tomorrow

[janniks]

Can you somehow provide me with an example that works? I have tried a bunch of times now and it doesn't seem to work for me... Using npm v6.14.11

According to 1, 2, 3 this doesn't work but rather the .hooks have to be used...

[coolaj86]

For reference, we continued and resolved this conversation in https://github.com/janniks/basetag/pull/21

I see that #21 was merged into https://github.com/janniks/basetag/tree/add-bin-structure, but that's not yet in master. Is that waiting for something?

[janniks]

Thanks for the ping and sorry for taking so long. I'll look into this tomorrow — haven't had a lot of spare time in the last two weeks, but I should be somewhat free now.

I'll add one more small fix and push a new version tomorrow

[janniks]

I think this looks decent... 😬

I've added

• the relative path default #24 (and an --absolute flag to override)
• a npx basetag <action> structure with link and rebase so far

[janniks]

Deployed via v2.0.0 — @coolaj86 would love to hear your feedback, I think everything should work 👀