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When packaging nodejs modules, often you face some complexities with the build process. Some common cases will be covered here.
Upstream repo does not have required tags
Manually downloading a git commit snapshot when the repo does not have tags matching with npmjs.com releases
Exclude generated files from source package
Exclude generated files from the source package (repacking)
Embed simple modules as a component
Embed a simple dependency as a component (ignore, group and checksum options in watch file)
Avoid self build dependency loop
Simple case of circular self build dependency (babel-plugin-lodash build depends on itself)
extlinks and extcopies for typescript
Using extlinks and extcopies options of pkg-js-tools for creating node_modules directory with symlinks or copies of modules installed in /usr/share/nodejs