Hey <@UL1A5BA2X>, is there a way to express in a `...

# npm-publish

[Matt Nelson]

Hey @Big Chungus, is there a way to express in a package.json that some files within the package are "optional" and able to be excluded (or is that even something that needs to be done)?

Looking to achieve the same sort of functionality that Java/Android app's have with the ability to exclude resources (such as android's packagingOptions gradle dsl). Is this something I need to define in the npm publication's package.json?

e.g.

I publish https://www.npmjs.com/package/kmp-tor-binary-resources?activeTab=code

It contains pre-built native binaries for many platforms and architectures.

But want to be able to selectively exclude files within the io/matthewnelson/kmp/tor/binary/native directory for platforms that my node application won't be running on.

[Big Chungus]

Hmm, I don't think that's something npm supports. Most bin packages published there usually just have the executables for all the platforms bundled together.

[Big Chungus]

That being said, you could hack it in npm-publish plugin itself and create 3 publication, each modified to filter out the files you don't want from the same package sources

[Big Chungus]

Might need to spawn multiple assemble tasks with filtering yourself though and it certainly won't be pretty

[Big Chungus]

Also this assumes 3 distinct packages on npm in the end

[Matt Nelson]

Hmm, I don't think that's something npm supports. Most bin packages published there usually just have the executables for all the platforms bundled together.

Yeah, even though I've gzipped all the files individually, it's still a 40mb package. Tor is not small.

[Big Chungus]

What's the reason behind you publishing the package to the npm? Do you expect to have any real js/ts consumers?

[Matt Nelson]

So that I can extract the resources from the module to the filesystem

[Matt Nelson]

The only one depending on that npm package is my kotlin multiplatform library, then using js("require.resolve({module-name}/io/matthewnelson/kmp/tor/binary/{platform}/{arch}/tor.gz") as String and writing it to the filesystem