Is there any way to use flatten-js without npm?

[momolinus]

Hi,
I want to use flatten without npm. So in the browser: <script src="flatten-js.js"></script> Is that possible somehow?
Thanks.

Marcus

[alexbol99]

Hello, Marcus,

I am so sorry that I missed your question.
I hope you've already found the answer in the examples section of the repository.

You can take it as umd package from unpackage.com

<script src='https://unpkg.com/@flatten-js/core'></script>

or as es6 package with script type="module" tag

<script type="module">
      import {point, circle, segment} from "https://unpkg.com/@flatten-js/core?module";

      // make some construction
</script>

[Kragrathea]

I have a similar question. I am strictly running in a browser like above, but will also need to modify the flatten-js code. Can this be done without having to publish a new package every time I make a change to the library?

Ideally I'd like to serve flatten-js directly from the source tree during development. I am not really familiar with how Node and npm really differ from straight javascript in a browser. I tried including the "index.js" script in my html page. But but there were issues like the imports all needing to specify the .JS file extension (ie './utils/constants.JS'). I guess under node the .JS is assumed. Once I got past that there were other package dependencies like flatten/tree-interval that I am not yet sure how to fix up. Am I going about this the right way?

Thanks!
K

[edemaine]

If you're going to modify the code, it would probably be best to build it yourself. (No need to publish.) If you have a modified version of the repo, you can run npm install and then npm build and you should get dist/main.* files that you can directly include in your HTML (following similar rules to above).