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link-bin

Make bin scripts work local npm dependencies.

npm install link-bin

Should be used as a post-install npm hook

Usage

Let's say you wanna put the following atom-shell app on npm

#!/usr/bin/env atom-shell

// this is an atom-shell app that just shows an empty screen
var app = require('app')
var BrowserWindow = require('browser-window')

app.on('ready', function () {
  var win = new BrowserWindow({
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    show: true
  })
})

Luckily atom-shell is installable through npm. If you save the above file as app.js you can then create the following package.json file

{
  "name": "my-atom-shell-app",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "my atom-shell app",
  "bin": "app.js",
  "scripts": {
    "install": "link-bin"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "atom-shell": "^0.21.3-1",
    "link-bin": "^1.0.0"
  }
}

If you publish the above program to npm other people will be able to npm install -g my-atom-shell-app and run my-atom-shell-app to execute the atom-shell app (even if they don't have atom-shell installed already)

To test it you can also run npm install -g . in the folder where you added the above app.js and package.json files.