VolView NPM Auto-Publish Plan

[PaulHax]

Motivation

Downstream projects like volview-girder-client currently clone and build VolView manually via custom scripts. Publishing VolView to NPM allows them to simply npm install volview and reference node_modules/volview/dist/.

Implementation

1. Add to package.json

"files": ["dist", "src"]

2. Create GitHub Actions workflow

• Trigger on merge to main
• Auto-increment patch version
• Build with: VITE_REMOTE_SERVER_URL= VITE_ENABLE_REMOTE_SAVE=true npm run build
• Publish to NPM
• Commit version bump back to repo with [skip ci]

3. Configure secrets

• Add NPM_TOKEN to GitHub repository secrets
• Enable "Read and write permissions" for GitHub Actions

Result

• Package size: ~63MB (dist + source)
• Auto-publish on every merge to main
• Version auto-increments: 4.4.0 → 4.4.1 → 4.4.2...

[PaulHax]

different implimentation in #820