Evolved NPM to ASP packages bundler

What is it?

It's a package bundler that makes possible for you to leverage your favorite node.js libraries to power your ASP (Active Server Pages) application.

Who is this for?

The main target audience for this project are fullstack Active Server Pages 3.0 (Classic ASP) developers with a decent notion of node.js and webpack.

Why does this exists?

With the growing up of node.js community in the last years, many good libraries are becoming available through the npm utility. This pre-configured webpack project make it a breeze to exports those packages and make it available to ASP.

How to use it?

With git and node.js already installed, it's very straight forward. Just run:

$ git clone https://github.com/become-evolved/npm2asp.git
$ cd npm2asp
$ npm i

This will ensure your environment get automaticaly configured. When it concludes, you should use npm i -D <package> as you normally do for your frontend development. e.g.:

$ npm i -D accounting-js

Whenever you feel happy with your packages, edit ./src/index.js adding your library into window.npm2asp object:

window.npm2asp = {

.
.
.

	accounting: require("accounting-js")

};

Then, build your project:

$ npm run build

This will update the files under ./dist/ folder. Now, copy'em to your domain.com/lib/ folder and use the ASP Server-Side Include directive to make the libraries available to the server environment.

Contributing

Working on your first Pull Request? You can learn how from this free series How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub.