Allow publishing from a specific folder using publishPath attribute

[thivi]

This is to allow publishing only a specific folder from within a package. In order to publish a specific folder, developers can add the following attribute to the relevant package's package.json file:

"publishPath": "dist"

This will run the npm publish command from within the dist folder, allowing only the content of this directory to be published.

[scalvert]

Thanks for the PR!

This is a fairly unconventional use case you're asking for, and one that could likely be accomplished by using the conventional mechanism npm uses. Would this not work for you?

[thivi]

Hi @scalvert,

Thank you for your swift response. The problem with the above approach is that you can't publish the content of a folder. Instead, you will be publishing the folder itself.

For example, let's assume that the structure of my repo is as follows:

|_dist
|__index.js
|__index.d.ts
|__package.json
|_src
|__index.ts
|_package.json

I want to publish the content of the dist folder. If I use the approach you suggested, the npm pack will look like this:

|_dist
|__index.js
|__index.d.ts
|__package.json

Instead, I want the npm pack to look like this:

|_index.js
|_index.d.ts
|_package.json

Release It actually supports this using the publishPath config. I would appreciate it if the workspaces plugin also supported something similar. https://github.com/release-it/release-it/blob/main/docs/npm.md#publish-path

[scalvert]

Thank you for this feature, @thivi! It's been rebased onto current master and reimplemented in #146 (the publishing logic moved from findAdditionalManifests to getWorkspaces since 2023, so the original diff no longer applied cleanly). Your authorship is credited there. Closing in favor of #146.

[thivi]

Thank you, @scalvert!