classes/npm: allow installation of devDependencies

Often, eg when using angular2, there's a need to install also
the devDependencies.

The default is to keep the old behaviour, to not install
devDependencies.

(From OE-Core rev: 9377d16751aeff0a913e754d711bca6e4e4d9df1)

Signed-off-by: Anders Darander <anders@chargestorm.se>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/npm.bbclass b/meta/classes/npm.bbclass
index c5380405af..a69bedbb28 100644
--- a/meta/classes/npm.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/npm.bbclass
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ def npm_oe_arch_map(target_arch, d):
     return target_arch
 
 NPM_ARCH ?= "${@npm_oe_arch_map(d.getVar('TARGET_ARCH'), d)}"
+NPM_INSTALL_DEV = "0"
 
 npm_do_compile() {
         # Copy in any additionally fetched modules
@@ -23,12 +24,20 @@ npm_do_compile() {
         # changing the home directory to the working directory, the .npmrc will
         # be created in this directory
         export HOME=${WORKDIR}
-        npm config set dev false
+        if [  "${NPM_INSTALL_DEV}" = "1" ]; then
+                npm config set dev true
+        else
+                npm config set dev false
+        fi
         npm set cache ${WORKDIR}/npm_cache
         # clear cache before every build
         npm cache clear
         # Install pkg into ${S} without going to the registry
-        npm --arch=${NPM_ARCH} --target_arch=${NPM_ARCH} --production --no-registry install
+        if [  "${NPM_INSTALL_DEV}" = "1" ]; then
+                npm --arch=${NPM_ARCH} --target_arch=${NPM_ARCH} --no-registry install
+        else
+                npm --arch=${NPM_ARCH} --target_arch=${NPM_ARCH} --production --no-registry install
+        fi
 }
 
 npm_do_install() {