dist is missing in the npm package

[nLight]

Hey @ashenden!

Trying to optimize dcos-ui build time I discovered that dist directory is missing from the build. When I tried to run npm run dist locally it would fail with

[10:30:43] Using gulpfile ~/workspace/cnvs/gulpfile.js
[10:30:43] Starting 'cnvs:styles'...
[10:30:52] Plumber found unhandled error:
 TypeError in plugin "gulp-autoprefixer"
Message:
    this is not a typed array.
Details:
    fileName: /Users/dmitriy/workspace/cnvs/styles/cnvs.css

Stack:
TypeError: this is not a typed array.
    at Function.from (native)
    at /Users/dmitriy/workspace/cnvs/node_modules/gulp-autoprefixer/index.js:26:27
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:369:9)
[10:30:52] Finished 'cnvs:styles' after 8.79 s

What I was trying to to is aggregating all the variables so we could import them while having the rest of the source code imported as css. Does it even make sense?

Thanks!

[ashenden]

Not completely sure I follow you. Could you break this down further?

[nLight]

1. The dist directory with compiled css is missing when I do npm install cnvs
2. When I clone the repo and try compiling the dist with npm run dist I get the error.

[ashenden]

Ah. Ok. So, you want the compiled styles as part of the package. To be honest, I wrote the package definition a didn't really know what I was doing. Maybe you have some suggestions as to how it could be better structured? What I wanted at the time, but didn't know how, was to have the package to have the following structure when you run npm install cnvs...

/components
/content
/layout
/utilities
cnvs.less
cnvs.css
cnvs.css.map
cnvs.min.css
cnvs.min.css.map

^^ all in the top level of the package, not nested in a /styles folder.

[nLight]

The main idea is to have a compiled bundle because compiling it ad-hoc in dcos-ui is so slow.
Let me think how the package can be improved.