removeNPMAbsolutePaths is a small utility to remove the fields that npm adds to the modules in node_modules containing local aboslute paths.
It has been noted that the package.json of modules in the node_modules folder contain some extra fields lie _args and where which contain the absolute path of the module. According to NPM those fields are not even used.
The problem comes when you are planning to package your application using electron, NW.js or similar and distribute it. You might not one to distribute files containing absolutes path within your computer.
A feature request has been raised to NPM to fix this issue.
- npm/npm#12110 (feature request)
- npm/npm#10393 (discussion about the topic)
removeNPMAbsolutePaths simple loop through all the files in the given folder, open the files called package.json an remove all the fields stating with an underscore (_).
You can install removeNPMAbsolutePaths globally and use it from the command line
npm install -g removeNPMAbsolutePaths
removeNPMAbsolutePaths "<PROJECT_FOLDER>"or use it from whithin your code
var removeNPMAbsolutePaths = require('mkLib');
removeNPMAbsolutePaths("<PROJECT_FOLDER>");removeNPMAbsolutePaths can be configured using tags. Tags can be added to the command line commands:
removeNPMAbsolutePaths "<PROJECT_FOLDER>" --tag1 --tag2or passed programmatically in an options object
removeNPMAbsolutePaths("<PROJECT_FOLDER>", { tag1: true, tag2: false});removeNPMAbsolutePaths only rewrite to this the files that it modifies. Passing the --force tag will rewritte all the files even if they hasn't been modfied. This might be useful if you want all the package.json files to have always exactly the same styling for example for hashing.
0.0.1
MIT