React Select Minification Script

This is a script for minifying React-select for use as a minified library.

.NET Framework usage

Currently, there is a modification that must be made to the node_modules file that is being minified. We need to expose this library via window (or any global object that can be referenced from the static JavaScript of a page) in order to have access to it since this repo is for explicitly not using the built-in npm / node.js "import" functionality.

How to use this repository

There are a few steps to follow after downloading this repository to create the desired file & utilize it as a minified application:

1. In the terminal, run npm i to install all node_modules required for this build
2. Once these are installed, navigate to ~/node_modules/react-select/creatable/dist/react-select-creatable.cjs.prod.js
3. At the end, under exports["default"] = CreatableSelect$1, assign this CreatableSelect$1 object to a variable on the window (window.REACTSELECT is what I have used as of v7.10).
   1. Depending on the features we want, we may need to get a dist build from a folder other than creatable - we always want the .cjs.prod.js file of whichever folder we are in
   2. CreatableSelect$1 is the varaible name for the creatable react-select (as in tags are freeform creatable), but it changes depending on what type of react-select build it is
   3. We need to do this to expose the library due to not using npm/node.js managed dependency injection
4. Update the REPOBASE constant in webpack.config.js to the directory containing this file
5. In the terminal, run npm run minify

Once you have followed the above steps, you should have a minified react-select build that can be dropped in & accessed through the window variable set in step 3.