Can I create my own npm package script that targets a file of my NEXT.js project? - babeljs

Question

For quicker development, I am interested in exposing one of the files of my NEXT.js project as an npm package script. This enables consuming that code in a simple way from the terminal, orchestrate maintenance tasks, etc.
Let's assume the file:
import { Something } from 'some_library';
console.log("Some task to be performed");
And in my package.json:
"scripts": {
"dev": "next dev",
...
"mine": "execute my file" < HERE
},
My first intuition would be calling node directly over my file in the mine task, but this would fail with the following error:
SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
I understand the babel transpilation needs to be performed before calling my file, activity that I assume is performed automatically by the dev command.
Is there any way in which I could have my own task that targets code that could be used directly in NEXT.js?. Is there any way to trigger the transpilation and after execute my file?.

Answer 1

Your package is not part of Next.js project and won't be transpilled by Next.js.
You can create a command (npm scripts) that calls Babel to transpile the package and then executes it but it's just confusing. Next.js projects don't include Babel as a root dependency by default, so your package would rely on a module that doesn't explicitly included.
Instead, make the package ready to use in production. Install Babel or another compiler as a dev tool in the package project. Before publishing the package, transpile it to a file that Node.js can execute.
In another words distribute executable files (the package itself) and not just a source of code of the package.