Hello Everyone, Sorry for the post. I spent some time and looked into the NPM repo and found the 'node-deb' tool which was developed expressly for the purpose of packaging a NodeJS project into a Debian .deb installer. I have downloaded it, updated my package.json and just created a debian installer for my package. So far I think this satisfies my requirements.
So in case anyone else has this questions please find the 'node-deb' NPM package and download it and read the README documentation. It took me about 10 minutes to get the installer to work. https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-deb Thank you, Michael Uman On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 4:06:57 PM UTC-8, Michael Uman wrote: > > Hello, > > I am rather new to the entire NodeJS environment so please be nice... > > I have been working with NodeJS, Electron, and a variety of NPM packages > for several months now and would like to deploy my simple commandline > application to others in my organization. I do not want to publish my code > to the NPM repository though and would rather be able to either package the > system in a Debian .deb installer or somehow use the Git repo which I store > the project in as a source for the installation. > > I have tried just using 'npm install -g git+ssh://xxxxxxx' and it worked a > couple of times but cannot fathom why it is not working any more. I always > use sudo when installing with the '-g' option and often run into > 'privilege' errors. When I just clone my project repository and run 'npm > install && sudo npm install -g' the installation seems to work but it just > creates a symlink to my checked out repository. I do not want this, I want > to have the application installed in the system (ie /usr/local/bin). > > My project is written in Typescript and I have the development environment > working very well (after a lot of wrangling the tsconfig.json, tslint.json, > and package.json files. I am transpiling to ES6 and use a few NPM modules > (sprintfs-js, commander, clear, colors, and @types for node & color)... > > For reference here is my package.json: > > { > "name": "hazard-check", > "version": "1.0.0", > "description": "Pipeline hazard checking tool", > "main": "dist/hazard-check.js", > "files": [ > "src/", > "dist/" > ], > "dependencies": { > "clear": "0.0.1", > "colors": "^1.1.2", > "commander": "^2.11.0", > "sprintf-js": "^1.1.1" > }, > "devDependencies": { > "@types/colors": "^1.1.3", > "@types/node": "^8.0.53", > "typescript": "^2.6.1" > }, > "scripts": { > "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1" > }, > "bin": "./dist/hazard-check.js", > "keywords": [], > "author": "Michael A. Uman", > "license": "ISC" > } > > I much appreciate the support from the members of the NodeJS community. I > am impressed with the capabilities of Javascript even though I am a > long-time C/C++ developer (with some scripting). > > If anyone has a pointer how to go about deploying my application via an > installer (ie .deb) or somehow using NPM with my git repository I would be > very grateful. > > Happy Holidays to everyone! > > Michael Uman > > -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/4a0a7173-0a80-45cd-98f0-f0e7f546b55d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
