Bash Installation Script Generator

This repository is for an NPM package I made that creates a script of chained installation commands for JavaScript/TypeScript, Linux, Python environments based on user input.

You can read dependencies from a file like requirements.txt for Python or package.json for JavaScript/TypeScript.

This is still in development so this package's main use is to generate long scripts using hardcoded objects or arrays in index.ts or using a file like requirements.txt to generate a long chain of pip installs.

Other dependency files like package.json will get added in the future

If you do not have dependency files or want to use an unsupported language you can hardcode in your dependencies as seen below

Editing nonVersionedDependencies Array when version does not matter

Ex. install python3-dev and python3-pip without specific version

// This is for arrays of package names when version isn't important
// Leave this as empty array unless you want to hardcode each package

const nonVersionedDependencies = [
    "python3-dev",
    "python3-pip"
];

Editing versionedDependencies object when specific versions is required

Ex. install pip at 20.3.4 and requests as 2.25.1

// This is for an object with keys equal to package names and values of the package version for when specific version is important
// Leave this as empty object unless you want to hardcode in the package + version

const versionedDependencies = {
    pip: "20.3.4",
    requests: "2.25.1",
};

Installation

npm i --dev

Use

Run the following command where language is the installation language (Ex. Python would be pip install, Linux would use sudo apt-get install)

npm run start INSTALLATION_LANGUAGE FILE

File argument is optional, if omitted, a script will be attemped to be built from whatever is in the versionedDependencies object or nonVersionedDependencies array

Python dependencies - Pip

Run in terminal if hardcoded versionedDependencyObject

npm run start pip

Run in terminal if you have the dependency file

npm run start pip PATH/TO/requirements.txt

Debian Linux - APT

Run in terminal if hardcoded nonVersionedDependency array

npm run start apt

IN PROGRESS

JavaScript/TypeScript - NPM

Run in terminal npm run start -- package.json