Oh boy, I wish I had started the FlexJS NPM module after you finished your
Node.js support via AS3 :-D
Thanks for the tips. I had it in my TODOs to look at your npm dts2as
utility. I will ping you when I get to the actual compilation of AS3 files
via node part, hopefully soon.
I might need some help to tweak my code to work on OSX as well. I am
working on Windows at the moment.
Thanks,
Om
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, I see! I was confused. I now recall seeing that you were working on
> getting FlexJS into NPM.
>
> I thought you meant that you were working on the compiler to add support
> for Node.js modules. Getting the compiler to output good code for running
> on Node.js is something that I hope to work on soon.
>
> For those not familiar, Node.js modules are referenced with calls to
> require(), like this:
>
> var fs = require("fs");
>
> It's almost like an import in ActionScript. I'm hoping to get the emitter
> to output the right require() calls for any classes that are from CommonJS
> modules used by Node.js. That's why I mentioned metadata.
>
> As far as NPM goes, let me share something that I learned while working on
> my dts2as utility. If you want someone to be able to use commands like
> asjsc directly from the command line, they need to install the package
> globally. It won't work for packages installed locally.
>
> npm install -g flexjs
> asjsc src/HelloWorld.as
>
> Okay, technically, you can run commands from local packages. It's just a
> little messy, so I think people avoid it:
>
> npm install -g flexjs
> ./node_modules/.bin/asjsc src/HelloWorld.as
>
> To get asjsc and other commands to work, you should be able to add them to
> package.json. Here's how I did it in dts2as:
>
> "bin": {
> "dts2as": "./bin/dts2as"
> }
>
> For FlexJS, I think something like this should work:
>
> "bin": {
> "asjsc": "./js/bin/asjsc",
> "asjscompc": "./js/bin/asjscompc"
> }
>
> - Josh
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:29 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala <bigosma...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > My first goal is to mimic the Installer to get all the required
> > dependencies (AIR, FlashPlayerGlobal.swc, Falcon, Google Closure etc.)
> The
> > problem here is that except for Google Closure, nothing else is available
> > as a require dependency from npm. And Adobe AIR and Adobe
> > FlashPlayerGlobal.swc need license agreement gates before downloading.
> >
> > So, I am creating a custon node.js module which calls
> > download_dependencies.js in the prepublish lifecycle stage file which
> takes
> > care of prompting the user, downloading, unzipping and copying files
> into
> > place. So far so good.
> >
> > The next step would be to register mxmlc, compc, asjsc, etc. with npm (in
> > package.json) and be able to call it from the command line.
> >
> > For the end user, it would be as simple as:
> >
> > npm install flexjs
> > asjac src/HellowWorld.as
> >
> > I have been committing my changes to the feature-npm-install branch of
> the
> > flex-utilities repo:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/flex-utilities/tree/feature-npm-install/npm-flexjs
> >
> > Right now, I am working on getting the Falcon dependencies working (there
> > are about a dozen of them)
> >
> > If there is a better way to do all this, I would love to hear it :-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Om
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I saw Om mention Node.js support in another thread.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:38 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala <
> > bigosma...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Right now, I am working on node.js support for FlexJS.
> > >
> > >
> > > It's something that I'm very interested in, and I planned to work on
> this
> > > too, once I found some time. Om, can you go into more detail about how
> > > you're planning to implement things? I was personally thinking that
> > > metadata might be needed to define what should be passed to require()
> for
> > > modules, but I'd love to hear if you have something else in mind, and
> > maybe
> > > provide you with some additional feedback.
> > >
> > > - Josh
> > >
> >
>
