Function getPackedPackage

packages/internals/src/getPackedPackage.ts:9–47

(name: string, target?: string, packageDir?: string)

import { resolvePkg } from './resolvePkg'

export async function getPackedPackage(name: string, target?: string, packageDir?: string): Promise<string | void> {
  packageDir =
    packageDir || (await resolvePkg(name, { basedir: process.cwd() })) || (await resolvePkg(name, { basedir: target }))

  if (!packageDir) {
    const pkgPath = up({ cwd: target })
    if (pkgPath) {
      const pkgJson = JSON.parse(readFileSync(pkgPath, { encoding: 'utf-8' }))
      if (pkgJson.name === name) {
        packageDir = path.dirname(pkgPath)
      }
    }
  }

  if (!packageDir && fs.existsSync(path.join(process.cwd(), 'package.json'))) {
    packageDir = process.cwd()
  }

  if (!packageDir) {
    throw new Error(`Error in getPackage: Could not resolve package ${name} from ${process.cwd()} target ${target}`)
  }

  const tmpDir = target ?? tempy.directory() // thanks Sindre

  const pkgFiles = await packlist({ path: packageDir })

  // we compute the paths of the files that would get npm published

  // we copy each file that we found in pkg to a new destination
  for (const file of pkgFiles) {
    const src = path.join(packageDir, file)
    const dest = path.join(tmpDir, file)

    await fs.promises.mkdir(path.dirname(dest), { recursive: true })
    await fs.promises.copyFile(src, dest)
  }

  return path.join(tmpDir)
}