directory gets created outside of messagesDir

[bartvde]

I have an app that links to an SDK using npm link. This all works fine, except for babel-plugin-react-intl generating a directory outside of messagesDir.

So the app.json gets created in the correct location:

build/messages/app.json

but the .json files of the SDK (which is in node_modules/boundlessgeo-sdk) get generated in sdk in the root of the repo:

Barts-MacBook-Air:tabbed bartvandeneijnden$ ls -l sdk/js/components/
total 112
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff  1265 Dec  4 09:06 AddLayer.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff   157 Dec  4 09:06 Chart.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff  1417 Dec  4 09:06 FeatureTable.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff   178 Dec  4 09:06 Geocoding.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff   154 Dec  4 09:06 GeocodingResults.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff   314 Dec  4 09:06 Geolocation.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff   124 Dec  4 09:06 HomeButton.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff   275 Dec  4 09:06 ImageExport.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff  2010 Dec  4 09:06 LayerListItem.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff   568 Dec  4 09:06 Measure.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff   152 Dec  4 09:06 QGISLegend.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff  1044 Dec  4 09:06 QGISPrint.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff  1347 Dec  4 09:06 QueryBuilder.json
-rw-r--r--  1 bartvandeneijnden  staff   285 Dec  4 09:06 Select.son

Any pointers to as why this might be happening? This is only when using npm link between app and SDK.

[bartvde]

ah it seems it's actually following the symlinks:

/Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/Geocoding.jsx
../../sdk/js/components/Geocoding.jsx

[bartvde]

Is there a way to protect the path so it never gets out of the messagesDir?

[ericf]

I don't understand the problem. What are the values for: the dir you're running Babel in, the configured messagesDir, the dir where the .js file is outputted, and the dir where the .json files are outputted?

[bartvde]

Run babel from: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk-apps/tabbed/
messagesDir: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk-apps/tabbed/build/messages/
dir where .js is outputted: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk-apps/tabbed/build/
dir where json files are outputted: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk-apps/tabbed/sdk/js/

[ericf]

Sorry I also meant to ask the source path to a JS file. Is it not under sdk-apps/tabbed/?

What I'm thinking is that the problem is happening here: https://github.com/yahoo/babel-plugin-react-intl/blob/master/src/index.js#L157-L161

If you can step through those lines while running Babel that might show where the issue is. I haven't seen this happen before so I'm trying to figure out what's different with the inputs to this code that are resulting in the unexpected output.

[bartvde]

Some of the source files are under the root dir of the app (sdk-apps/tabbed/), others are in sdk-apps/tabbed/node_modules/boundless-sdk/js/components/ (those are the ones causing the issue. I've stepped through that code block before but will do it again.

[ericf]

I've never tried to compile code in node_modules with Babel and this plugin, so it's likely something with that which is different. Are you using Webpack or something to run Babel on dependencies?

[bartvde]

Here is the output from my logging:

 filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk-apps/tabbed/app.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): app.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): .
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/Geocoding.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/Geocoding.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/FeatureTable.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/FeatureTable.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/GeocodingResults.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/GeocodingResults.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/QueryBuilder.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/QueryBuilder.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/Select.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/Select.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/Measure.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/Measure.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/Chart.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/Chart.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/Geolocation.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/Geolocation.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/ImageExport.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/ImageExport.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/QGISLegend.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/QGISLegend.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/QGISPrint.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/QGISPrint.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/AddLayer.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/AddLayer.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/HomeButton.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/HomeButton.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components
filename: /Users/bartvandeneijnden/opengeo/git/sdk/js/components/LayerListItem.jsx
p.relative(process.cwd(), filename): ../../sdk/js/components/LayerListItem.jsx
p.dirname(p.relative(process.cwd(), filename)): ../../sdk/js/components

[bartvde]

I'm using browserify with this transform:

  "browserify": {
    "transform": [
      "cssify",
      "babelify"
    ]
  }

and this is my .babel.rc:

{
  "plugins": ["react-intl"],
  "extra": {
    "react-intl": {
        "messagesDir": "./build/messages/",
        "enforceDescriptions": true
    }
  }
}

[bartvde]

This is a directory listing of the app's node modules:

Barts-MacBook-Air:tabbed bartvandeneijnden$ ls -l node_modules/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  10 bartvandeneijnden  staff  340 Dec  4 09:33 babel-plugin-react-intl
drwxr-xr-x   9 bartvandeneijnden  staff  306 Dec  3 14:56 babelify
lrwxr-xr-x   1 bartvandeneijnden  staff   71 Dec  3 15:05 boundless-sdk -> ../../../../../.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.2/lib/node_modules/boundless-sdk
drwxr-xr-x  13 bartvandeneijnden  staff  442 Dec  3 14:57 browserify
drwxr-xr-x   9 bartvandeneijnden  staff  306 Dec  3 14:56 cssify
drwxr-xr-x  10 bartvandeneijnden  staff  340 Dec  3 14:56 envify
drwxr-xr-x  10 bartvandeneijnden  staff  340 Dec  3 14:56 minifyify
lrwxr-xr-x   1 bartvandeneijnden  staff   68 Dec  3 16:34 openlayers -> ../../../../../.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.2/lib/node_modules/openlayers
drwxr-xr-x   7 bartvandeneijnden  staff  238 Dec  3 14:56 pui-react-buttons
drwxr-xr-x   8 bartvandeneijnden  staff  272 Dec  3 14:56 pui-react-tabs
lrwxr-xr-x   1 bartvandeneijnden  staff   63 Dec  3 15:05 react -> ../../../../../.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.2/lib/node_modules/react
drwxr-xr-x   9 bartvandeneijnden  staff  306 Dec  3 14:56 react-dom
drwxr-xr-x  10 bartvandeneijnden  staff  340 Dec  3 14:57 react-intl
drwxr-xr-x   6 bartvandeneijnden  staff  204 Dec  4 09:05 sdk-debug-server
drwxr-xr-x   9 bartvandeneijnden  staff  306 Dec  3 14:56 through
drwxr-xr-x  12 bartvandeneijnden  staff  408 Dec  3 14:56 watchify

The symbolic links are because of the usage of npm link

When I don't use a link, all is fine. However, I need to use a link so I can edit the boundless-sdk node module from the app during development.

[ericf]

If you can edit the plugin code locally to get it to work within your setup, feel free to send a PR. When I get a chance I'll try to setup a simple project to reproduce that uses symlinks to see if I can reproduce.