New: postinstall script added to allow older courses to be migrated in the authoring tool (fixes #42)

examples/migrations.js

@@ -115,13 +115,6 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
             });
             await migrations.migrate({ journal, logger });
 
-            // Todo - {
-              // display changes success/failure and request user confirmation before completing
-              // move saving of content outside of the language loop
-              // only 1 confirmation per course rather than 1 per language
-              // output journal entries for revert
-            // }
-
             // group all content items by path
             const outputFilePathItems = _.groupBy(content, '__path__');
             // sort items inside each path
@@ -136,7 +129,6 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
               const stripped = isSingleObject
                 ? undressPathIndex(outputItems[0]) // config.json, course.json
                 : outputItems.map(undressPathIndex); // contentObjects.json, articles.json, blocks.json, components.json
-              // console.log(journal.entries)
               fs.writeJSONSync(outputPath, stripped, { replacer: null, spaces: 2 });
             });
           }

npm_hooks/postinstall.js

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import fs from 'fs/promises';
+import path from 'path';
+
+const destinationPath = path.resolve('./../../grunt/tasks/migration.js');
+const sourcePath = path.resolve('./examples/migrations.js');
+
+async function checkFileExists () {
+  try {
+    await fs.access(destinationPath);
+    return true;
+  } catch (error) {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+async function copyMigrationFile () {
+  try {
+    const destinationDir = path.dirname(destinationPath);
+    await fs.mkdir(destinationDir, { recursive: true });
+
+    // Copy the file
+    await fs.copyFile(sourcePath, destinationPath);
+    console.log(`File copied successfully to: ${destinationPath}`);
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.error('Error copying file:', error.message);
+  }
+}
+
+if (!await checkFileExists()) {
+  await copyMigrationFile();
+};

package.json

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
   "type": "module",
   "main": "index.js",
   "version": "1.2.0",
+  "scripts": {
+    "postinstall": "node npm_hooks/postinstall.js"
+  },
   "devDependencies": {
     "eslint": "^8.42.0",
     "eslint-config-standard": "^17.1.0",