Create React NPM Component

This tool is intended to make it simple to start writing a react component for publishing to NPM.

Usage

Assuming you have a blank project made with create-react-app

npm install -g create-react-npm-component

create-react-npm-component [project-name]

Go through the setup prompts and let it install needed dependencies, then if everything finished correctly, you just have to link the project to your global node_modules in order and then also link it to the project you wish to import it into...

cd [project-name]
npm link
npm start

In another terminal, fire up the project you want to import the component into for testing and development.

cd /other/project-dir
npm link [project-name]
npm start

You can then import the component, and render it somewhere for development...

NOTE: this example is a stock create-react-app App.js file

import "./App.css";

import React, { Component } from "react";

import logo from "./logo.svg";
import MyComponent from "my-create-react-npm-component-project";

class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="App">
        <header className="App-header">
          <img src={logo} className="App-logo" alt="logo" />
          <h1 className="App-title">Welcome to React</h1>
        </header>
        <p className="App-intro">
          To get started, edit <code>src/App.js</code> and save to reload.
        </p>
        <MyComponent />
      </div>
    );
  }
}

export default App;

which should render the component in the stock create-react-app project

Publishing

cd [project-name]
npm login
npm publish

Contributing

1. Fork the repo
2. Clone your fork onto your local machine
3. make changes and install locally with npm i -g in the cloned directory
4. When you are happy with the changes, push it, and make a pull request.