bitbake-npm

BitBake 1.28 (Yocto 2.0) layer adding fetch support for Node.js NPM repositories.

Adds support for npm://<package name>;version=<package version> in recipe SRC_URI.

Installation

1. Add bitbake-npm layer to sources/layers.txt

     bitbake-npm,git://github.com/imyller/bitbake-npm.git,master,HEAD
   

2. Add bitbake-npm layer to EXTRALAYERS in conf/bblayers.conf

       EXTRALAYERS +=" \
           ${TOPDIR}/sources/bitbake-npm \
       "
   

3. Run oebb.sh update

Usage

1. Inherit npm-fetch class in recipe

       inherit npm-fetch
   

2. Use npm:// URI sources in the recipe SRC_URI

      SRC_URI = "npm://forever;version=0.15.1"

Note: defining a version is optional