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The deprecated Streamline NPM package, which will be deleted on 1st November 2022.
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Updating `STREAMLINE_FAMILIES` and installing new images #40

Closed reynosoturtle closed 3 years ago

reynosoturtle commented 3 years ago

The problem

Reinstalling the package doesn't download added families to the STREAMLINE_FAMILIES environment variable

Expected behaviour

The new images should be installed

Steps to reproduce

  1. Install package as instructed in documentation
  2. Add a new family into the STREAMLINE_FAMILIES array
  3. Reinstall package to download new images

Is there a way to do this? Currently, my solution is to uninstall the package first before installing it again. It's not a desirable solution as it's a fresh install and downloads every single image each time.

cbrwizard commented 3 years ago

Hey, thank you for opening this issue. Current implementation relies on postinstall npm hook script, which I believe happens only on a clean install. Maybe there is a different npm hook script we can use which will solve this use case.

reynosoturtle commented 3 years ago

Current implementation relies on postinstall npm hook script, which I believe happens only on a clean install. Maybe there is a different npm hook script we can use which will solve this use case.

Perhaps a standalone CLI helper? In the long-term, it will offer a more flexible solution and features such as syncing families with projects in the Streamline app

kesne commented 3 years ago

Yeah I think the way that other postinstall-driven libraries generally do this is having a CLI that ships with the product, so that I could do something line streamline download to trigger the installation script.

cbrwizard commented 3 years ago

Today we announce that we're deprecating the Streamline NPM package. Instead, we’ll focus on the web app and Figma plugin, which are used by a noticeable share of our customers.

Please from now on instead of using our brittle package download the images directly from our website and insert them into your project as SVG files. Meanwhile, Streamline team is focused on ensuring that our web application provides the best user experience for developers' use cases. Please take 2 minutes to share feedback so that we can improve.

We'll keep this package with minimal life support until 1st November 2022, after which it's going to be deleted.

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