neutrino-dev/packages/neutrino-preset-node

Neutrino Node.js Preset

This neutrino preset enables building Node.js projects with a common configuration for Webpack, ESLint, Babel, and Mocha.

^{This preset extends the neutrino-preset-base preset by enhancing it with Node.js-specific configuration.}

Getting started

Install neutrino and neutrino-preset-node as development dependencies in your project:

npm install --save-dev neutrino neutrino-preset-node

Modify your package.json scripts to use the Node.js preset to build your project. Remember to also configure your project's main and files to include the built files, not the source files, e.g.:

{
  "main": "build/index.js",
  "files": [
    "build"
  ],
  "config": {
    "preset": "neutrino-preset-node"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "build": "neutrino build",
    "test": "neutrino test"
  }
}

Add your source code to src/, which is compiled using Babel's es2015 preset.

If you would like to use testing in your project, create a test/ directory, and write tests in JS files with file names ending in _test.js, e.g. test/homepage_test.js or test/users/admin_test.js. Run tests with npm test, which will output results to the console, and also creates test coverage to a .coverage/ directory.

Overriding the preset

There may be times where this preset works well for you, but you need to change some of the defaults it provides. Maybe you don't like the opinion of the ESLint rules, or want to add more types of file loading. Whatever the reason for needing changes, you can either create a custom preset based on this one, or change the values on a project-by-project basis.

To override in your project, create a new file to use as a preset which will modify the existing one, e.g. custom-preset.js:

// bring in the existing preset
const preset = require('neutrino-preset-node');

// modify the preset

// re-export the preset
module.exports = preset;

Now you can pass this file to neutrino to use as the new preset:

{
  "config": {
    "preset": "custom-preset.js"
  }
}

You can also choose to load different presets for different targets if you so wish:

{
  "config": {
    "preset": "custom-preset.js"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "neutrino start",
    "test": "neutrino test --preset some-other-preset",
    "build": "neutrino build --preset neutrino-preset-node"
  }
}