Package generator is broken for js option

[reeveng]

📝 Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

I tried to generate a package with --js as option, always results in an error after going through several phases.

Steps to reproduce:

1. run npx ckeditor5-package-generator@latest @somerandomname/ckeditor5-some-random-name --use-yarn
2. select js as language
3. wait a bit for the package to start generating
4. observe this error:

editorial note:

• the apparent result seems to somewhat work when you try to run it 👍
• also noticed that recently all or nearly all plugins switched to typescript, if javascript plugins are not intended, then remove the option?
• it doesn't seem possible to add translated values to custom-plugins?

✔️ Expected result

Not sure, but maybe not an error?

❌ Actual result

An error that's confusing, did it work, did it not, it generated files, what am I supposed to do with them, yeet them and delete them, or treasure them ...?

❓ Possible solution

not sure man, haven't looked at the code of the package generator

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[Witoso]

Thanks for the report! I cannot reproduce it but I'm on MacOS. And it looks like the OP shows Windows. @pomek could your team take a look?

• also noticed that recently all or nearly all plugins switched to typescript, if javascript plugins are not intended, then remove the option?

This doesn't matter, it determines what will be generated to your src dir, additional files needed, and different webpack configs.

• it doesn't seem possible to add translated values to custom-plugins?

Not sure what you mean here, please elaborate :)

[pomek]

Something is wrong when a directory contains a space. It can be reproduced on both path styles: Windows and Unix.

[pomek]

After removing the following lines, it works as expected.

• ckeditor5-package-generator/packages/ckeditor5-package-generator/lib/utils/install-dependencies.js

  Lines 56 to 57 in ef84284

  	'--prefix',
  	directoryPath

• ckeditor5-package-generator/packages/ckeditor5-package-generator/lib/utils/install-dependencies.js

  Lines 68 to 69 in ef84284

  	'--cwd',
  	directoryPath