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shama / napa

:wine_glass: A helper for installing stuff without a package.json with npm.
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Be smart about the main attribute on package.json #49

Open giggio opened 8 years ago

giggio commented 8 years ago

If napa detects that the downloaded files don't contain a package.json, it currently creates one. I would add that it should be smart about the main attribute. If there is a file on the root with the same name of the package, use that as main. For example, if I specify that I want to use jquery-validation-unobtrusive, and that the name I want to use for it is jquery.validate.unobtrusive, it should set the main to jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js, which is a file of the same name that is located on the root. Maybe also check /lib and /bin. This is somewhat connected to what was proposed on #18, but it would offer a convention, so I don't always need to configure.

shama commented 8 years ago

+1 Sounds good. Do you know of a good package on npm for detecting a potential main filename?

giggio commented 8 years ago

@shama No, I don't. :( But it should not be difficult to implement this logic I suggested.

sparty02 commented 8 years ago

Related: If there is a bower.json in the package root, it would be convenient to pickup the main from that too!