Publish to npm

[wbinnssmith]

Given that npm is now recommended for jquery plugins, it makes sense that jquery-migrate be published to npm to support the myriad of outdated plugins out there.

Ideally a main field is added to the package.json here and a prepublish step runs the usual build process. A .npmignore file could optionally be used to avoid publishing the sources and tests to the registry.

I'd love to submit a PR for the second half -- let me know if you're open. Of course publishing would be up to the jquery project 😄

Edit: Just realize that jquery-migrate will break as-is with most commonjs bundlers and the default export in jquery (which doesn't leak $ or jQuery to the window). A UMD-style wrapper similar to what jquery uses would probably be best. Likewise, I'd love to submit a pr for this too.

[dmethvin]

Just realize that jquery-migrate will break as-is with most commonjs bundlers and the default export in jquery (which doesn't leak $ or jQuery to the window).

We should separate the "Publish to npm" issue from the "Support CJS internally" one. They're not related.

Clearly right now we need to serve the 80% (probably more like 95%) case where jQuery is a global and no module loader is being used. As long as we don't break that case I am fine with handling all the others and would welcome PRs!

[alehatsman]

Hello,

When do you plan to publish to npm?

Best regards,
Aleh

[dmethvin]

Publishing was added to the release script in e3593e2 and we'll be publishing 1.3.0 within the next couple of days.