A simple way to install tables + editor with npm

sdroulers

Hi,

I just wanted to share you a straightforward way I found to install tables & editor (licensed version) in npm.

Using the download builder, I pick the options I want and then choose to download the files (with concatenate option)

I then:
* Copy the Datatable package into some local directory.
* Add a package.json file with the following

{
  "name": "datatables-bundle",
  "version": "1.10.16",
  "description": "Datatables bundled",
  "main": "datatables.js",
  "author": {
    "name": "SpryMedia Ltd",
    "url": "http://datatables.net"
  },  
}

• Go to my project directory.
• Call npm install ../datatables-local-package-path.

Once this is done, I can require the bundled package with a single line:

 window.dt = require('datatables-bundle');

... and this works. Editor and Tables are fully functional so are the plugins I use.

It spares me the difficulty of installing separately all the npm packages (I just require one file), the post install process for Editor's licence and so on.

So far I don't see downsides but this can be due to my ignorance about npm. Of course the package won't update by itself but this is a minor issue.

Sébastien

allan

Awesome - thanks for sharing this!

Allan

sdroulers

My pleasure