Automatically generating dependencies YAML from a bower install about htmlwidgets HOT 7 CLOSED

I very much like it even though there is a dependency on node. But still that dependency can be ignored by the package creator with no desire to learn bower or install node.

This is incredibly useful in package creation and also maintenance. I would be a big user. This prevents duplication of effort with the js community.

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@timelyportfolio That is the central idea. Provide a utility function that authors can choose to use, but nothing prevents them from creating the YAML file manually. Taking the idea one step further, one could use a script like this to download dependencies and create the YAML in one go.

dir.create('htmlwidgets')
setwd('htmlwidgets')
system('bower install morris.js')
yaml = create_config_yaml('bower_components')
writeLines(yaml, 'morris.yaml')

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I think having utility functions like this within htmlwidgets definitely makes sense so long as they don't drag in additional dependencies.

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@jjallaire This one doesn't add more dependencies, since we already import RJSONIO and yaml.

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Okay, then I'm all for it!

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Ramnath Vaidyanathan <
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@jjallaire https://github.com/jjallaire This one doesn't add more
dependencies, since we already import RJSONIO and yaml.

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Slightly off topic, but I could envision a future with htmlwidgets that have no UI and simply inject dependencies for use on the js side. This bower auto feature would be immensely helpful there also.

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This feature has already been added to htmlwidgets.

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