Sharing custom formatters

[kbrandwijk]

I have built a custom formatter (for TAP output), and now I want to share this formatter. However, I can only specify a file name for a custom formatter. That means I need to point to node_modules/[myformatter]/dist/tap-formatter.js, which is not really nice.

Do you have any plans to support pointing to a package? For example by extending the cucumber.js configuration file, so I can put something in there like:

{
  "formatters": {
    "tap": "my-package-name"
  }
}

So I can use -f tap.

[charlierudolph]

If [myformatter] has "main": "dist/tap-formatter.js" in its package.json then you would be able to do -f node_modules/[myformatter].

We could still create this formatter alias block so it can be applied with a nicer name, but the user shouldn't need to specify the path within the node module in most cases

[kbrandwijk]

@charlierudolph That's a proper intermediate solution. Thanks.

[charlierudolph]

Closing and will add a comment to #751

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