post-install – Tarik Billa

How to automatically copy files from package to local directory via postinstall npm script?

April 10, 2024 by Tarik

Since npm 3.4 you can use the $INIT_CWD envar: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/164504728630/v540-2017-08-22 When running lifecycle scripts, INIT_CWD will now contain the original working directory that npm was executed from. To fix you issue add to your postinstall script in package.json the following: “scripts”: { “postinstall”: “cp fileYouWantToCopy $INIT_CWD”, },

Execute a Python script post install using distutils / setuptools

September 13, 2023 by Tarik

The way to address these deficiences is: Get the full path to the Python interpreter executing setup.py from sys.executable. Classes inheriting from setuptools.Command (such as setuptools.command.install.install which we use here) implement the execute method, which executes a given function in a “safe way” i.e. respecting the dry-run flag. Note however that the –dry-run option is … Read more

Local gulp not found (Try running: npm install gulp)

January 18, 2023 by Tarik

Try running npm link gulp in your application directory (to create a local link to the globally installed Gulp module).