Module Smith

A simple extensible NPM build bot.

Example

Given a small script for building a specific module:

var tmp = require('tmp');
var assert = require('assert');

var ModuleSmith = require('module-smith');
var buildbot = ModuleSmith.createModuleSmith();

//
// Grab a temporary directory to build in
//
tmp.dir(function (err, tmpdir) {
   assert.ifError(err);
   //
   // Start our build
   //
   buildbot.build({
      repository: {
         type: 'git',
         url: '[email protected]:bmeck/bcrypt-example.git'
      },
      directories: {
         rootdir: tmpdir
      }
   }, function (err, stream) {
      assert.ifError(err);
      //
      // Pipe out the data to stdio
      //
      stream.pipe(process.stdout);
   });
});

We can dump it to a file via:

node build.js > built.tgz

API

ModuleSmith.createModuleSmith(options)

String[] options.versions

List of the versions supported with absolute version numbers like ie. '0.8.12'

BuildDescription options.defaults

The defaults for a build run using this ModuleSmith.

ModuleSmith.build(buildDescription, callback(err, tgzStream))

Runs a build

BuildDescription

A build description enumerates a number of values

BuildDescription.env

Optional environmental variables to spawn npm with.

Some interesting fields are:

• npm_config_registry - registry to download from
• npm_config_nodedir - location of node-gyp's include directory

BuildDescription.uid = 'nobody'

Optional user to spawn npm as.

BuildDescription.gid = undefined

Optional group to spawn npm under.

BuildDescription.packageJSON

Optional package.json overrides. Can be extended easily from the repository during npm.configure.

Some interesting fields are:

• engines.node - version to spawn as

BuildDescription.repository

A checkout npm module repository to download wbefore building.

BuildDescription.directories.rootdir

The place to use for creating the build.

Understudy Actions

Extensibility for complex actions can be done via Understudy based actions, only before actions are supported.

build.configure (buildDescription)

npm.configure (buildDescription)

npm.package (buildDescription, packageJSON)

Events

Notifications of actions that have been completed are available via the EventEmitter APIs.

npm.spawned (buildDescription, npmProcess)

build.output (buildDescription, tgzStream)