feat: use json to allow install package by name without conflicts

README.md

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Enter in your pacakge directory and run
 ```bash
 loctry publish
 ```
+> NOTE: This  command needs to be run in the same dir as the `package.json`
 
 This command will pack and send your package tarball to the `.loctry` folder to be avaiable to be installed in others projects. 
 

bin/index.mjs

@@ -4,14 +4,15 @@ import yargs from 'yargs';
 import { hideBin } from 'yargs/helpers';
 import chalk from 'chalk';
 
-import { modulesRoot, packageDir } from '../config/paths.mjs';
+import { modulesRoot, packageDir, packagesInfoPath } from '../config/paths.mjs';
 
 import publish from '../commands/publish.mjs';
 import install from '../commands/install.mjs';
 
 // Verify if global node_modules and package exists, if not, create it
 if(!fs.existsSync(packageDir)) fs.mkdirSync(packageDir);
 if(!fs.existsSync(modulesRoot)) fs.mkdirSync(modulesRoot);
+if(!fs.existsSync(packagesInfoPath)) fs.writeFileSync(packagesInfoPath, '{}');
 
 yargs(hideBin(process.argv))
   .command('publish', 'Publish a package to the local registry', {}, () => publish())

commands/install.mjs

@@ -1,23 +1,19 @@
 import { execSync } from 'child_process';
 import fs from 'fs';
-import path from 'path';
 import chalk from 'chalk';
 
-import { modulesRoot } from '../config/paths.mjs';
+import { packagesInfoPath } from '../config/paths.mjs';
 
 const install = (packageName) => {
-  const filenameMatchRegex = new RegExp(`^${packageName}-v?\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+\\.tgz$`);
-  const availableVersions = fs.readdirSync(modulesRoot).filter((file) => filenameMatchRegex.test(file));
-  const tarballFilename = availableVersions[availableVersions.length - 1];
+  const packagesInfo = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(packagesInfoPath, 'utf-8'));
+  const tarballPath = packagesInfo[packageName]?.tarballPath;
 
-  if(!tarballFilename) {
+  if(!tarballPath) {
     console.log(chalk.red(`Package ${packageName} not found in the local registry`));
     process.exit(1);
   };
 
-  const packageTarballAbsPath = path.join(modulesRoot, tarballFilename);
-
-  execSync(`npm install ${packageTarballAbsPath}`);
+  execSync(`npm install ${tarballPath}`);
   console.log(chalk.green('Package installed successfully!'));
 };
 

commands/publish.mjs

@@ -1,11 +1,24 @@
 import { execSync } from 'child_process'
 import chalk from 'chalk';
+import fs from 'fs';
+import { join } from 'path';
 
-import { modulesRoot } from '../config/paths.mjs';
+import { modulesRoot, packagesInfoPath } from '../config/paths.mjs';
 
 const publish = () => {
-  execSync(`npm pack --pack-destination ${modulesRoot}`, { stdio: 'inherit' });
+  const packageInfo = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(join(process.cwd(), 'package.json')));
+  const packagesInfo = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(packagesInfoPath));
 
+  const tarballFilename = execSync(`npm pack --pack-destination ${modulesRoot}`).toString().trim();
+
+  packagesInfo[packageInfo.name] = {
+    name: packageInfo.name,
+    version: packageInfo.version,
+    description: packageInfo.description,
+    tarballPath: path.join(modulesRoot, tarballFilename),
+  };
+
+  fs.writeFileSync(packagesInfoPath, JSON.stringify(packagesInfo, null, 2));
   console.log(chalk.green('Package published successfully!'));
 };
 

config/paths.mjs

@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ import os from 'os';
 
 export const packageDir = path.join(os.homedir(), '.loctry');
 export const modulesRoot = path.join(packageDir, 'node_modules');
+export const packagesInfoPath = path.join(packageDir, 'packages-info.json');

package.json

@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@
     "npm": ">=7.0.0",
     "yarn": ">=1.0.0"
   }
-}
+}