IoT Package Bundler

It is not desirable to have Internet services (NPM, GitHub, etc) as a dependency for the packages that would run on a production environment.

To bypass such dependency, we provide a tool that will pack all the package dependencies from a development environment into a ready-to-be-used package.

The steps this tool executes in background are somehow complicated, but, in a nutshell, it will statically analyze all the dependencies of the package and subsequent dependencies and merge everything into a single index.js file. Some other dependencies, like configurations, certificates, node addons (*.node) are also added into the resulting package, however, to keep everything in a clean state, some post-processing steps are needed and this tool supports them up to some extent.

In a terminal window run:

yo @criticalmanufacturing/iot:packagePacker --help

The following parameters can be supplied:

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
i, input	String	${cwd}	Location of the package to pack (directory where the package.json is located)
o, output	String		(optional) When defined, it is the directory where the .tgz package file will be placed
t, temp	String	${cwd}\__TEMP__	Temporary directory where the processed files will be placed
c, config	String	${cwd}\packConfig.json	Location where the file with the post-processing instructions is located
a, addons	String		Location where the binary addons (\*.node) are located. Required to prepare a package that is cross-platform, cross-architecture and supporting multiple Node versions. Note: Due to the complexity of this option, the usage is not described in this documentation and requires some support from our company
d, debug	Boolean	false	Activate the debug mode. This mode will not delete the temporary directory allowing the user to properly define the post-processing directives
v, version	String		Flag that allows to override the version defined in the package.json into an user-defined value

Configuration file structure

The configuration is a .json file that identifies the type of package and declare post-packing actions to perform to organize, clean and possibly, fix some issues with the result structure.

If a post-action rule does not match its target (for example, a CopyFiles filter finds no files or a ReplaceText search string is absent), package bundling fails with an error by default. Set treatMissingRulesAsWarning to true in packConfig.json to log these cases as warnings and continue, preserving the previous behavior.

{
    "type": "<Package Type>",
    "treatMissingRulesAsWarning": false,
    "postActions": [
        { "type": "<ActionType>", "parameter1": "value1", "parameter2": "value2", "...": "..." },
        { "type": "<ActionType>", "parameter1": "value1", "parameter2": "value2", "...": "..." }
    ]
}

Possible Package Types:

Type	Description
TasksPackage	Represents a package used to contain Tasks and Converters. The result package will be ready for runtime (no internet dependencies) and for design-time (all .js, .html, .css, etc) required by the GUI but not required for the runtime.
Component	Represents a package that is only used for runtime (driver, etc)

Possible Post Actions:

Structure	Description	Example
DeleteFile(source)	Deletes the file source	{ "type": "DeleteFile", "source": "${Temp}/completion.sh.hbs" }
DeleteFiles(filter, source)	Delete files based on a regular expression filter at source	{ "type": "DeleteFiles", "filter": "\\d+\\.index\\.js", "source": "${Temp}/libs" }
DeleteDirectory(source)	Deletes the directory source	{ "type": "DeleteDirectory", "source": "${Temp}/locales" }
CopyDirectory(source, destination)	Copies the entire directory structure from source into destination	{ "type": "CopyDirectory", "source": "font", "destination": "${Temp}/font" }
CopyFile(file, source, destination)	Copy the file file located in the directory source into the directory destination	{ "type": "CopyFile", "source": "${Source}/certificates/default.pem", "destination": "${Temp}/examples" }
CopyFiles(filter, source, destination)	Copy files based on a regular expression filter from source to destination	{ "type": "CopyFiles", "filter": "\\d+\\.index\\.js", "source": "${Source}/certificates", "destination": "${Temp}/examples" }
MoveFile(file, source, destination)	Moves the file file located in the directory source into the directory destination	{ "type": "MoveFile", "file": "client_selfsigned_cert_2048.pem", "source": "${Temp}", "destination": "${Temp}/certificates" }
MoveFiles(filter, source, destination)	Move files based on a regular expression filter from source to destination	{ "type": "MoveFiles", "filter": "\\d+\\.index\\.js", "source": "${Temp}", "destination": "${Temp}/certificates" }
ReplaceText(source, search, replace, isRegularExpression)	In the file source, tried to find all occurrences of search and replaces them with replace. If isRegularExpression the search is expected to be a valid regular expression. Note: Make sure the replaced value is not captured again by the search value, otherwise, the process will enter into an infinite loop.	{ "type": "ReplaceText", "source": "${Temp}/index.js", "search":"\"client_selfsigned_cert_2048.pem\"", "replace": "\"/../certificates/client_selfsigned_cert_2048.pem\"" } { "type": "ReplaceText", "source": "${Temp}/index.js", "search":"__webpack_require__\\(\\d*\\)\\('HID-hidraw.node'\\)", "replace": "require(__webpack_require__.ab + \"/../lib/hid-hidraw.node\")", "isRegularExpression": true }

Some tokens can be used in the Post Actions to be replaced according to the environment/command line arguments:

Token	Description
${Source}	Source location (argument i, input)
${Destination}	Destination location (argument o, output)
${Temp}	Temporary location (argument t, temp)
${Addons}	Addons location (argument a, addons)