Why isn't this package on NPM?

[phiresky]

The library does not seem to be on NPM right now. Is that intentional?

[rhashimoto]

Sort of? I guess there are reasons; not sure if they are actually good reasons.

• I'm lazy - Learning how to publish on NPM has never been high on my list.
• Unsure about benefits - The tiny fraction of developers for whom it might be interesting or useful will probably find it. It seems easy enough to reference a package with a git link.
• It's not stable - This is an experiment that is one month old. I haven't gotten around to incorporating it into my own web app yet. Right now it's more of a proof-of-concept than a component. Update: It's older than a month and has had some use. The library itself has been pretty stable, but examples (e.g. IndexedDbVFS) have not.
• Low traffic is a happy place - I don't have any motivation to mess with that.

Counterpoints welcome!

[guillempuche]

It would be nice to publish as npm package, everyone knows how to install it.

I have errors installing it with yarn add wa-sqlite@github:rhashimoto/wa-sqlite or yarn add wa-sqlite@github:rhashimoto/wa-sqlite#v0.9.11 (Yarn Berry)

Packing wa-sqlite@https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite.git#commit=390744d41c61aa0bbd53d3c738abef5e23f71cc4 from sources
Using Yarn for bootstrap. Reason: "__metadata" key found in yarn.lock

➤ YN0036: Calling the "prepack" lifecycle script
➤ YN0000: wa-sqlite@workspace:. STDERR make: *** No rule to make target `tmp/obj/dist/sqlite3.o', needed by `dist/wa-sqlite.mjs'.  Stop.
➤ YN0036: Prepack script failed (exit code 2, logs can be found here: /private/var/folders/ys/spt316fs5sxck01gjy40s1rc0000gn/T/xfs-9811de01/prepack.log); run yarn prepack to investigate
➤ YN0000: Failed with errors in 0s 11ms

[AntonOfTheWoods]

It also appears others find it worth publishing their versions too, so that might cause some community confusion... https://www.npmjs.com/package/@journeyapps/wa-sqlite/v/0.0.0-dev-20231130012731

[guillempuche]

True, i don't know which one is up-to-date with your repo.

https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=wa-sqlite