Suggestion: Publish task as an npm package

[ath88]

Hello there,

We have several node.js projects where we would love to use task as our task runner. But - that would require every developer to install task on their local development host. Usually we include development dependencies in the package.json-file of our projects. There are tools we can't install this way, such as docker, but it'll be an easier sell in the team if we can just add it into our existing dependency list.

There are tools that makes it easy to publish go binaries to npm packages while still handling cross-platform issues, such as https://github.com/sanathkr/go-npm.

Would you be open to do this?

[andreynering]

Hi @ath88,

I liked the idea, so I just gave it a try and it seems to be very simple indeed, so I'll commit to do that.

I opened a PR with the WIP work on it: #871

I used of fork of the package you indicated because it's more maintained (see sanathkr/go-npm#15).

There's a contribution I just made which is a blocker to make it work on Windows: gzuidhof/go-npm#5.