Packaging jQuery Plugins: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:28, 8 April 2016

Process for creating, maintaining, and distributing jQuery plugins using GitHub and npm.

Use npm to fetch the plugin from GitHub, included in in the project, and add it to the project requirements:

$ npm install git+https://git@github.com/northrose/lightboxLink.git --save

The --save parameter updates package.json, adding the package as a dependency of the project.

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 === Using plugins in projects ===
+Use `npm` to fetch the plugin from GitHub, included in in the project, and add it to the project requirements:
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+$ npm install git+https://git@github.com/northrose/lightboxLink.git --save
+</syntaxhighlight>
+The `--save` parameter updates `package.json`, adding the package as a dependency of the project.
 * [http://blog.npmjs.org/post/112064849860/using-jquery-plugins-with-npm Using jQuery plugins with npm], `npm` Blog