Overview

• Extracts the npm package code into its own folder inside the vscode folder.
• Adds pipeline changes to generate both the package and vsix in the GitHub actions
• Adds pipeline changes to deploy the npm package to npm

Closes

Closes #6098
Closes #6299
Closes #6302
Closes #6304
Closes #6346

Folder Visualisation

vscode
├── microsoft-kiota/
├── npm-package/
│ ├── lib/
│ │ ├── generateClient.ts
│ │ ├── generatePlugin.ts
│ │ └── ...
│ ├── tests/
│ │ ├── generateClient.spec.ts
│ │ └── ...
│ ├── connect.ts
│ ├── install.ts
│ ├── ...
│ ├── runtime.json
│ ├── readme.md
│ └── index.ts
├── node_modules/
├── ...
├── lerna.json
└── package.json

Testing the npm package

1. Package the Kiota npm package. It should generate a .tgz file microsoft-kiota-1.0.0.tgz.

cd vscode/npm-package
npm pack

2. Create a new directory for your project and navigate into it:
   Initialize a new Node.js project. The default is (commonjs), but you can change it later to ES6 modules by setting "module": "ES6" in your tsconfig.json file and reinstall the kiota npm package

mkdir use-kiota
cd use-kiota
npm init -y
npm install typescript @types/node --save-dev
npm install 'path/to/microsoft-kiota-1.0.0.tgz'
npx tsc --init
code .

3. Create a new file named index.ts at the root of the project and add the following code:

import { getKiotaVersion } from '@microsoft/kiota';
const getVersion = async () => {
  const version = await getKiotaVersion();
  console.log(version);
}
console.log("Hello, World!");
getVersion();

4. Run the TypeScript compiler to compile your index.ts file into JavaScript and run the compiled code:

npx tsc
node index.js

The expected result is:

Hello, World!
1.23.0

Changing the download location

To change the default location of the downloaded binaries, update the import command to include the configuration.

import { getKiotaVersion, setKiotaConfig } from '@microsoft/kiota';
setKiotaConfig({ binaryLocation: "C:\\path\\to\\use-kiota\\binaries" });
const getVersion = async () => {
  const version = await getKiotaVersion();
  console.log(version);
}
console.log("Hello, World!");
getVersion();

You should expect the same results and also see the binaries in the folder you selected