feat(ci): enable skipping build during prepack step

Signed-off-by: Victor Adossi <vadossi@cosmonic.com>

Author: vados-cosmonic

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -187,6 +187,8 @@ jobs:
     needs:
       - meta
       - test-npm-release
+    env:
+      PREPACK_SKIP_BUILD: "true"
     steps:
       # NOTE: we need to checkout to pull npmrc
       - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2

package.json

@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@
     "test": "mocha -u tdd test/test.js --timeout 120000",
     "test:release": "mocha -u tdd test/test.js --timeout 120000",
     "test:weval": "cross-env WEVAL_TEST=1 mocha -u tdd test/test.js --timeout 120000",
-    "test:debug": "cross-env DEBUG_TEST=1 mocha -u tdd test/test.js --timeout 120000"
+    "test:debug": "cross-env DEBUG_TEST=1 mocha -u tdd test/test.js --timeout 120000",
+    "prepack": "node scripts/prepack.mjs"
   },
   "files": [
     "lib/interfaces",

scripts/prepack.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import { env } from 'node:process';
+import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
+
+async function main() {
+  if (env.PREPACK_SKIP_BUILD) {
+    console.error(`SKIP_BUILD set, skipping prepack build step`);
+    return;
+  }
+  await spawn('npm', ['run', 'build'], { stdio: 'inherit' });
+}
+
+await main();