Merge pull request #739 from LiskHQ/724-remove-postinstall-script

Remove postinstall script - closes #724

.gitignore

@@ -52,9 +52,8 @@ jspm_packages
 tmp
 
 # Distribution folders
-dist-browser/*.js
-dist-browser/*.json
-dist-node
+dist-browser/
+dist-node/
 
 # Built test files
 browsertest/package.json

README.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Lisk Elements is a JavaScript library for [Lisk][Lisk Core GitHub], the blockcha
 
 ## Installation
 
-## Installation via npm
+### Installation via npm
 
 Add Lisk Elements as a dependency of your project:
 
@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ import { APIClient, transactions } from 'lisk-elements';
 const { APIClient, transactions } = require('lisk-elements');
 ```
 
+**Note:** If you are installing Lisk Elements as an npm dependency via a GitHub reference, you will need to manually build the distribution files by running the following commands from the root directory of your project:
+
+```
+cd node_modules/lisk-elements
+npm run build
+```
+
 ### Installation via CDN
 
 Include the following script using the following HTML. The `lisk` variable will be exposed.
@@ -51,6 +58,17 @@ Or minified:
 <script src="https://js.lisk.io/lisk-elements-1.0.0.min.js"></script>
 ```
 
+### Installation from source
+
+Our source code is hosted on GitHub. You can build the distribution yourself by cloning the repository, installing the relevant dependencies and running our build script as follows:
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/LiskHQ/lisk-elements.git
+cd lisk-elements
+npm install
+npm run build
+```
+
 ## Usage
 
 Access functionality via the relevant namespace. For example, the following will create and (locally) sign a transfer (type 0) transaction, and then broadcast it to the Lisk Testnet.

package.json

@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@
     "build:check": "node -e \"require('./dist-node')\"",
     "precommit": "lint-staged && npm run lint",
     "prepush": "npm run lint && npm test",
-    "postinstall": "if [ ! -f ./dist-node/index.js ]; then npm run build; fi",
     "prepublishOnly": "rm -r ./node_modules && npm install && npm run prepush && npm run build"
   },
   "dependencies": {