What if the files in package to be patched are minified?

[stevecj]

I was hoping to use patch-package to apply a small patch to swagger-ui since there is a fix that we need that nobody is getting around to merging. When I look at contents of node_modules/swagger-ui/, however, there are only minimized files in dist/ , so I'm not sure how I would patch that or whether it's even reasonable to try.

Is this a typical situation, or is swagger-ui breaking a norm by including only dist files?

Am I just missing some bit of common knowledge around this that could be added to the README for patch-package to help me and others who are missing that bit of knowledge?

Thanks for any help.

[revelt]

TLDR; Personally, I'd check out the swagger-ui repo (git clone it), edit the changes in source files (src/*?), use their build npm-scripts from package.json to produce the dist/, then I'd port dist contents (copy-paste the folder) into the actual project's node_modules (where patch-package is installed), then run npx patch-package swagger-ui to get the diff as per readme of patch-package.

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You see, there are 2 kinds of packages:

• those that keep sources in JS, and ship as-is (typically dts are written by hand), notable examples, anything from Mr. Sorhus https://github.com/sindresorhus/matcher
• those that use bundlers (like rollup/esbuild), or even DIY scripts. Mainly it's those who's sources are in TS (yours truly for example), but some JS libs also can use a bundler/build script too (lodash, for example https://github.com/lodash/lodash).

So, no, swagger-ui is not breaking the norm.