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Config filename conflicts with npm, please support alternate config names

See original GitHub issue

If a project has a browserslist config file, npm will fail to install the browserslist package. The config file is mistaken for a local node.js package, and npm fails with an npm ERR! not a package error.

Steps to reproduce

$ mkdir -p /tmp/bl && cd $_
$ echo last 4 versions > browserslist
$ npm install browserslist

npm ERR! not a package /private/tmp/bl/browserslist
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /private/tmp/bl/browserslist
[...]

naive expected result: install the browserslist package from npm
naive becase everything’s actually working correctly, just that the filename conflicts
actual result: error, package does not install

Any chance the project could support an alternate config file name like .browserslist, browserslist.config or browserlistrc? My preference would be a dotfile, which would fit in nicely with the ever-growing collection of like-named config files from other tools.

Issue Analytics

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:7 (7 by maintainers)

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3reactions

aicommented, Jan 7, 2017

I think we could add .browserslist config name in next major release and promote only it in docs (but still support browserslist config with warnings).

1reaction

aicommented, Jan 10, 2017

@brokenmass I am not big fan of rc postfix. It is longer and less readable. But I could rethink about it if there is some standard about names.

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