Module Ability to Add Packages to Vendor Directory

td

Hello!

I am posting this here, but I am not sure if this feature already exists in some way or another.
As I developed the Magic Mirror module MMM-GConnect (https://github.com/tderflinger/MMM-GConnect) I wanted to use the Preact (https://preactjs.com/) library to make my UI programming more efficient for me. Preact is basically a lightweight version of the popular React library.

The only way to make Preact work in my module was to install it in the vendor directory and add a reference in vendor/vendor.js.

The thing now is when users of my module want to install MMM-GConnect, they need to manually install Preact and add the lines to vendor/vendor.js.

Is there a standard way to do that in Magic Mirror that I am not aware of? If not, I would propose to add a feature to make it possible for modules to add packages to vendor automatically as part of their install routine.

Thanks for your opinion!

-Thomas

td

@MMRIZE , yes, your getScripts function suggestion worked! Thanks!

MMRIZE

@td

This doesn’t work?

getScripts: function () {
  return [ 
    this.file('node_modules/preact/dist/preact.min.js'), //from this module's directory
  ]
}

Or you can serve preinstall or postinstall scripts for your module to handle that kind of job (additional install, move/rename files, etc.)

td

@MMRIZE , yes, your getScripts function suggestion worked! Thanks!