George Mauer <gma...@gmail.com> writes: > I had a need the other day to execute some typescript in an org document. > Now I know that there's an ob-typescript package but that doesn't quite > work the way I want and expects typescript to be installed globally (which > runs into a variety of versioning issues). > > There is a better option available with the `npx` program (installed > alongside `npm`) which can install a package along with its dependencies > into a temporary sandbox and run its binaries. > > I rewrote the typescript babel plugin to do this and then realized that > there was relatively little in it beyond variable and function names that > was typescript-specific. The exact same process can be used for anything > that has an interpreter up on npm. Coffeescript, mermaidjs, all sorts of > things. > > So I made a macro. I'm interested what people here think: > https://github.com/togakangaroo/create-ob-npx
I'd say that the problem you are trying to solve is similar to what ob-shell.el does. And it does it similarly, modulo common shell syntax. More generally, generic backends like ob-shell or what you are proposing are a subset of "take the code block, save it to file, and pass the file to be executed by a CLI command". -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
