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Here is the scripts section of my package.json for the component I'm publishing:

"scripts": 
 "build-ng": "ngc -p tsconfig.json",
 "clean-src": "rimraf src/*.d.ts src/*.js* src/**/*.json src/**/*.ngfactory.ts src/*.ngfactory.ts src/**/*.js*",
 "clean": "npm run cleanup && rimraf pack",
 "build-aot": "npm run cleanup && npm run build-ng && npm run pack && npm run cleanup",
 "cleanup": "rimraf dist && npm run clean-src && rimraf assets",
 "webpack": "webpack",
 "add-assets": "copyfiles -u 4 ./node_modules/@rti/rti-lib/assets/**/*.* ./assets/ && copyfiles -u 2 ./src/assets/**/*.* ./assets",
 "pack": "webpack --config webpack.aot.js",
 "prepare": "npm run build-aot && npm run add-assets",
 "prepublishOnly": "npm version prerelease --preid=snapshot",
 "publish": "git add package.json && git commit -m "Package version Changed" && git push"
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When this item is built and published (using "npm install" and "npm publish"), the tgz file is 5mb. If I browse to the artifact in Artifactory, I see a file that is roughly 5mb.

When the server component builds, it uses a Maven plug-in to download the tgz using "npm pack @rti/rti-app@latest". It then unpacks and repacks the tgz including some other artifacts.

At this point, the server builds correctly. If I build the server again, it also succeeds. However, if I build the server a third time, the tgz file is then truncated to 1,900 bytes. Publishing the client restores the artifact, and things work again. As long as the server isn't built three times in a row before the client is built, everything keeps working.

I've narrowed it down to this specific "npm pack" operation.

<configuration>
 <executable>$npmexe</executable>
 <workingDirectory>target/</workingDirectory>
 <arguments>
 <argument>pack</argument>
 <argument>@rti/rti-app@latest</argument>
 </arguments>
</configuration>

It's easier to repro by just doing the same operation.

So, to summarize:

1. From the rti-app directory: Publish @rti/rti-app by "npm install && npm publish".


2. From the server directory: "npm pack @rti/rti-app@latest"


3. dir rti*tgz : You'll see a file that is > 5mb.


4. npm pack @rti/rti-app@latest


5. dir rti*tgz : You'll still see a file that is > 5mb.


6. npm pack @rti/rti-app@latest


7. dir rti*tgz : Now, you'll see a file that is 1,900 bytes.


8. I've reproed this multiple times just to make absolutely sure that these steps are causing it.

I know that the whole design of this is convoluted and over-complicated. Our packaging needs to be redesigned and simplified, but there's no time for that now. I just need it to work.

Everything I've read says that "npm pack" is the best way to download the tgz file for an NPM artifact. I imagine that overriding the "pack" item in "scripts" is the key to this bad behavior. Would removing "pack" and moving the "webpack --config webpack.aot.js" be something I should look at?

I don't recall this problem when we were using Sinopia.