@loopback/build

This module contains a set of common scripts and default configurations to build LoopBack 4 or other TypeScript modules, including:

• lb-tsc: Use tsc to compile typescript files
• lb-eslint: Run eslint
• lb-prettier: Run prettier
• lb-mocha: Run mocha to execute test cases
• lb-nyc: Run nyc

These scripts first try to locate the CLI from target project dependencies and fall back to bundled ones in @loopback/build.

Basic use

To use @loopback/build for your package:

1. Run the following command to add @loopback/build as a dev dependency.

npm i @loopback/build --save-dev

1. Configure your project package.json as follows:

"scripts": {
    "build": "lb-tsc",
    "build:watch": "lb-tsc --watch",
    "clean": "lb-clean",
    "lint": "npm run prettier:check && npm run eslint",
    "lint:fix": "npm run prettier:fix && npm run eslint:fix",
    "prettier:cli": "lb-prettier \"**/*.ts\" \"**/*.js\"",
    "prettier:check": "npm run prettier:cli -- -l",
    "prettier:fix": "npm run prettier:cli -- --write",
    "eslint": "lb-eslint --report-unused-disable-directives .",
    "eslint:fix": "npm run eslint -- --fix",
    "pretest": "npm run clean && npm run build",
    "test": "lb-mocha \"dist/__tests__\"",
    "posttest": "npm run lint",
    "start": "npm run build && node .",
    "prepublishOnly": "npm run test"
  },

Please remember to replace your-module-name with the name of your module.

Now you run the scripts, such as:

• npm run build - Compile TypeScript files and copy resources (non .ts files) to outDir
• npm test - Run all mocha tests
• npm run lint - Run eslint and prettier on source files

1. Override default configurations in your project

• lb-tsc

  By default, lb-tsc searches your project’s root directory for tsconfig.build.json then tsconfig.json. If neither of them exists, a tsconfig.json will be created to extend from @loopback/build/config/tsconfig.common.json.

  To customize the configuration:

  • Create tsconfig.build.json or tsconfig.json in your project’s root directory

    {
      "$schema": "http://json.schemastore.org/tsconfig",
      "extends": "@loopback/build/config/tsconfig.common.json",
      "compilerOptions": {
        "outDir": "dist",
        "rootDir": "src"
      },
      "include": ["src"]
    }
    

  • Set options explicitly for the script

    lb-tsc -p tsconfig.json --target es2017 --outDir dist
    

    For more information, see https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/compiler-options.html.

  • The following un-official compiler options are available:

    Option	Description
    --copy-resources	Copy all non-typescript files from src and test to outDir, preserving their relative paths.

  • Using ttypescript

    Stability: ⚠️Experimental⚠️

    If you would like to use ttypescript and its available plugins, you can substitute lb-tsc with lb-ttsc, or pass the option lb-tsc --use-ttypescript. If ttypescript is not installed, the default TypeScript compiler tsc will be used instead.

1. Run builds

npm run build

1. Run code coverage reports

• lb-nyc

  lb-nyc is a simple wrapper for nyc.

  To customize the configuration:

  • Create .nycrc in your project’s root directory

    {
      "include": ["dist"],
      "exclude": ["dist/__tests__/"],
      "extension": [".js", ".ts"],
      "reporter": ["text", "html"],
      "exclude-after-remap": false
    }
    

  • Update your package.json scripts:

    "precoverage": "npm test",
    "coverage": "open coverage/index.html",
    "coverage:ci": "lb-nyc report --reporter=text-lcov | coveralls",
    "test": "lb-nyc npm run mocha",
    "test:ci": "lb-nyc npm run mocha"
    

    coverage:ci sets up integration with Coveralls.

A note on console logs printed by tests

We consider (console) logging from tests as a bad practice, because such logs usually clutter the test output and make it difficult to distinguish legitimate error messages from the noise.

By default, lb-mocha detects when the tests and/or the application tested have printed console logs and fails the test run with the following message:

=== ATTENTION - INVALID USAGE OF CONSOLE LOGS DETECTED ===

If you need more information about behavior in the test, then the first choice should be to use a better or more descriptive error assertion. If that’s not possible, then use debug statements to print additional information when explicitly requested.

A typical situation is that a test is sending an HTTP request and the server responds with an error code as expected. However, because the server is configured to log failed requests, it will print a log also for requests where the failure was expected and intentional. The solution is to configure your REST server to suppress error messages for that specific error code only. Our @loopback/testlab module is providing a helper createUnexpectedHttpErrorLogger that makes this task super easy.

Alternatively, it’s also possible to disable detection of console logs by calling lb-mocha with --allow-console-logs argument.

Contributions

• Guidelines
• Join the team

Tests

run npm test from the root folder.

Contributors

See all contributors.

License

MIT