Node script with dependencies

[colbin8r]

I've written a BitBar plugin in JavaScript. My script has a few dependencies (including the suggested bitbar package) and so I'm not sure how to contribute it to the plugins repo.

In my readme, I suggest cloning the repo into the plugins folder, installing the dependencies (npm install), and then symlinking the script into the plugins folder. It works great, but I'd like to contribute it to the folder to help make it easier for others to find.

Seeing as I can only contribute a single script file without dependencies, what's the best way to submit the plugin to this repo?

[colbin8r]

I ended up including a bash script to perform the install. https://github.com/colbin8r/bitbar-docker-ps/blob/master/install.sh

However, it doesn't seem BitBar can carry over the $PATH, so for now it has to be invoked manually.

[LitoMore]

Same issue.

I think the best way to install a Node.js plugin is linking the file to the plugin folder automatically at the postinstall stage. In this way, we could publish our package as a global package to the npm registry.

Unfortunately, we cannot get the BitBar plugin path from the environment variable 💔.

[grasmash]

I'd like to do the same but for a PHP script with Composer dependencies. I'd like xBar to enable me to ship more than 1 file.

It seems like changing the directory structure to enable each plugin to have its own directory would be better.