Hello, everyone.

I want to write a SlackBuild for pgadmin4, which is dependent on a number of things, in particular, some javascript code for user interface.

So it want a few javascript packages, notably, nodejs, yarn, cross-env.

As far as I understand, not all of those available on SBo yet. I want to write slackbuilds for them, but I am completely ignorant about the proper way to install npm/javascript modules on Slackware.

I guess I shouldn't just add 'npm install' in doinst.sh.

I.e., is there a typical slackbuild for installing javascript stuff that I can base mine upon.

SlackBuilds
get the sbopkg browser for direct interface
https://sbopkg.org
write them . Then go to slackckBuild.org and read what it takes to write them and
present them.
https://slackbuilds.org/guidelines/

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Honestly, I just have npm (and pip, and similar tools) install stuff into my home directory:

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You can use npm2tgz. You just tell it the module name and it will download it and create a Slackware package (I'm not sure how it deals with dependencies of those modules... whether they end up being self-contained or if you need to manually do each one).

Can those 'converted packages' be submitted to SBo? I mean, slackbuilds using npm2gtz internally?

They are strictly Slackware packages, not SlackBuilds. Unfortunately, with the way SlackBuilds are done and submitted to SBo, the SlackBuild isn't allowed to download the source, which means npm2tgz can't be used. The download location for the module has to be listed in the .info file. This means you would have to have the source or pre-compiled module already available before you run the SlackBuild, then you would just unpack that module and make it into a Slackware package.