Include .gitignored files compiled from typescript in `npm install -g`

Question

I'd like to ignore the JavaScript files compiled from TypeScript in my git repo. (That greatly simplifies merging, rebasing, partial commits etc.) The relevant parts of my setup look like this:

tsconfig.json

{
    "compilerOptions": {
      "outDir": "./dist"
    }
}

.gitignore

dist

When installing globally like this:

rm -rf dist
node_modules/.bin/tsc
sudo npm install -g

the gitignored dist folder is not installed. Is there any proper solution to this? The following ones aren't really satisfactory:

Comment/uncomment dist in .gitignore before and after sudo npm install -g
Cope with parallelly managing ts and js files

make sure you don't have "noEmit": true, in your tsconfig.json — TWI
– TWI, Commented Apr 4, 2019 at 11:08
@TWI I have no noEmit set. In any case, I don't think that's relevant to the problem, is it? — Thomas W
– Thomas W, Commented Apr 4, 2019 at 11:50
No I didn't fully understand what npm install -g did, So it appears npm install -g honours .gitignore? This might answer your problem stackoverflow.com/a/24942436/3343178 — TWI
– TWI, Commented Apr 4, 2019 at 12:09

Thomas W · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-05 17:21:29Z

3

I solved the problem by putting the following into my package.json:

"files": [
  "/dist"
],

Now, only the dist folder and README.md are packaged/installed. Found out about this possibility from a post by Jeff Dickey.

answered Apr 5, 2019 at 17:21

Thomas W

15.5k6 gold badges53 silver badges69 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Include .gitignored files compiled from typescript in `npm install -g`

1 Answer 1

Comments

Your Answer

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Linked

Related