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npm packages in CoffeeScript (package.coffee -> package.json)

npm -g install courier 

Compiling a package.coffee file to a package.json isn't as simple as it seems

1. Write your npm package package.json in CoffeeScript and save as package.coffee
2. Run courier against your project.

package.json is now alongside package.coffee; ready to be installed or linked with npm.

Use the -p (--print) flag for a noisy delivery.

Since courier utilises CoffeeScript and not static JSON, npm packages can be made dynamic.

For instance, the following package.coffee...

name:'node-foo'description:'extends node with foo'date:newDate

...would produce the following package.json...

{"name": "node-foo","description": "extends node with foo","date": "2011-02-23T09:25:14.491Z"}

For a concrete example of this behaviour, look no further than the package.coffee of this very project. Hint: The VERSION file is read to dynamically version the npm package.