publish bin so that it can be easily used by other editors

[prabirshrestha]

I'm working on the language server provider plugin for vim and would like to have a binary so that npm install would just work.

Would it be possible to publish a bin file so when I run npm install -g dockerfile-language-server-nodejs, I can run the server by running docker-langserver --stdio?

[rcjsuen]

This is certainly something that can be considered. I will have to do some research to see how difficult this would be.

Do you have a workaround that you can use for the time being, @prabirshrestha?

[prabirshrestha]

It should be very simple to implement this. You would need is to expose the bin setting in package.json.

Add this to your package.json and after running npm install -g dockerfile-language-server-nodejs, we should then be able to use docker-langserver --stdio. docker-langserver will be the name of the executable.

    "bin": {
        "docker-langserver": "lib/server.js"
    }

You can read a tutorial about this at http://markmarkoh.com/nodejs-npm-and-executables/

[rcjsuen]

The lib/server.js method did not work so I ended up creating a bin/docker-langserver file instead.

Please use version 0.0.4 of the npm module and not 0.0.3.

[prabirshrestha]

Thanks. It works.