plugin copying front-end files to public/

Author: bmuenzenmeyer

index.js

@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
 "use strict";
 
 var fs = require('fs-extra'),
+  glob = require('glob'),
   path = require('path');
 
 function plugin_init(patternlab) {
 
+  if(!patternlab) {
+    console.error('patternlab object not provided to plugin-init');
+    process.exit(1);
+  }
+
   //write the plugin json to public/patternlab-components
   var pluginConfig = {
     "name":"pattern-lab\/plugin-node-tab",
@@ -16,7 +22,32 @@ function plugin_init(patternlab) {
   }
 
   var pluginConfigPathName = path.resolve(patternlab.config.paths.public.root, 'patternlab-components', 'packages');
-  fs.outputFileSync(pluginConfigPathName + '/plugin-tab.json', JSON.stringify(pluginConfig, null, 2));
+  try {
+    fs.outputFileSync(pluginConfigPathName + '/plugin-tab.json', JSON.stringify(pluginConfig, null, 2));
+  } catch (ex) {
+    console.trace('Error occurred while writing pluginFile configuration');
+    console.log(ex);
+  }
+
+  //write the plugin dist folder to public/pattern-lab
+  var pluginFiles = glob.sync(__dirname +'/dist/**/*');
+
+  if (pluginFiles && pluginFiles.length > 0) {
+    for (let i = 0; i < pluginFiles.length; i++) {
+      try {
+        var fileStat = fs.statSync(pluginFiles[i]);
+        if (fileStat.isFile()) {
+          var relativePath = path.relative(__dirname, pluginFiles[i]).replace('dist', ''); //dist is dropped
+          var writePath = path.join(patternlab.config.paths.public.root,'patternlab-components', 'pattern-lab', 'plugin-node-tab', relativePath);
+          fs.copySync(pluginFiles[i], writePath);
+        }
+      } catch (ex) {
+        console.trace('Error occurred while copying pluginFile', pluginFiles[i]);
+        console.log(ex);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
 }
 
 module.exports = plugin_init;

package.json

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
   "description": "",
   "main": "index.js",
   "dependencies": {
-    "fs-extra": "^0.30.0"
+    "fs-extra": "^0.30.0",
+    "glob": "^7.0.0"
   },
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",