Using an NPM module from Ionic - ionic-framework

I am using ionic 1.3.1 and I want to use the npm phone module here to validate phone numbers on the client side.
In looking around on how to use the npm module, I followed instructions in this SO post (last answer at the bottom) and copied the phone directory from npm_modules to www/lib. I then included the lib/phone/lib/index.js file in my index.html.
When I bring up the page with ionic serve I get the error "module not found".
I see solutions for using npm in Ionic v2 but am not ready to move to v2 yet. I also see some answers pointing towards using Browserify but I am trying to avoid having to use new tools if I don't need to - feels like there must be a simple way to use an npm module inside ionic.
Thanks for any pointers to help resolve.
Sanjay

Since I couldn't figure this out I just created an Angular service from the code in the index.js file for the npm phone module.

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I want to know how to use Github in open source

I am a programming starter to try github for the first time.
https://github.com/froala/design-blocks
I completed the clone as described in the main link.
I have also completed the npm installation as described in the text and have successfully run it.
But if i simply want to use source code, do i not need to install the module using npm?
Why do I install the module using npm?..
How do I use the packages I installed using npm?
Even if I did a search on Google, there was no post for beginners like me.
I really appreciate your advice.

What code do I need to enter to make expo project function?

I am not a developer, but I had an app built a couple months ago. The developer we had won't help us at all anymore (not sure why).
Please excuse me if I don't use proper terms.
So the project was done on Expo. I no longer have access to the original expo project, but I have all the code he wrote in a Github repository.
Is is possible to take the code from Github and paste it into Expo XDE and possibly reproduce the app on Expo? (Or Does that sound possible?)
Please let me know.
Yes, you could do this. It is important, that you copy all project files from the GitHub repository into your new Expo project. Don't forget to download all necessary libraries into your new Expo project, e.g. via npm install.
I'm a complete react native noob, I've been doing this, and I love it:
Develop prototype on https://snack.expo.io
Here I can develop and test on the browser, test on my phones, and on emulators. It's great.
When I'm ready to build, I download the code package from the Snack IDE
This downloads a zip file with everything except Expo and imported libraries.
I unzip and go into the folder with my terminal and install the libraries.
Inside the folder, I run these commands to install Expo and the regular libraries:
$ npm install expo # install expo
$ npm install # install a bunch of required libraries
# Then I run these two lines until my project builds
$ npm run web # try to run - it will tell me which libraries to install, one by one
$ npm install <library> # install each library
Eventually I'll move to using command-line only, but this is both a no-brainer for a noob like me and it's like training wheels for me to learn npm and expo.

Component-preload.js generation

We are about to close a SAPUI5 application, one of the last steps is to make a Component-Preload.js file to improve performance. I read different guides around the web, all of them need Node.js that I have installed. I'm not expert about that package and I can't figure how to make one of that guides work. I'm developing with NetBeans. As far as I see there is not an official tool (am I right?) to generate that file. Can someone with more experience than me suggest a working, well-explained guide to perform that task?
I don't know if this could help, that's my working tree:
There are several main ways of doing it.
You can use SAP Web IDE to generate it. This assumes that you are using WebIDE to develop your application (which is not true based on your question). The regular version of WebIDE generates this file during the "client build" just before application deployment.
The "multi cloud" version of WebIDE can use a grunt build to do it. You can find more info here if you are interested: https://www.sap.com/developer/tutorials/webide-grunt-basic.html.
Use the new UI5 command line tools (https://npmjs.com/package/#ui5/cli):
Run npm i -g #ui5/cli to install the tools globally.
Open the root of your project with your terminal.
Run ui5 build preload to build the preload.
Use the #sap/grunt-sapui5-bestpractice-build pre-configured grunt tasks. The downside is that they are more-or-less black boxes which do not allow that much customisation. You can find an example setup on SAP's GitHub repository jenkins-pipelines. In a nutshell:
You need to define an .npmrc file which adds the #sap npm registry: #sap:registry=https://npm.sap.com.
Run a npm init command such that you generate a package.json file. This file describes your application and your dependencies (runtime dependencies and dev dependencies; you will only have dev dependencies for now, as you just want to build your app). Make sure to mark the package as private. See the npm docu (at the end of the license chapter).
Then you can install grunt and the build configuration: npm i grunt -D and npm i #sap/grunt-sapui5-bestpractice-build -D.
Lastly you need to define a simple Gruntfile (you can then run the build by just running grunt):
module.exports = function (grunt) {
'use strict';
grunt.loadNpmTasks('#sap/grunt-sapui5-bestpractice-build');
grunt.registerTask('default', [
'lint',
'clean',
'build'
]);
};
You can use the official grunt_openui5 plugin to generate the preload file(s). In order to be able to do this, you need to have node installed:
Create a package.json (e.g. through npm init).
Install grunt by writting in the console: npm install grunt-cli --save-dev.
Install the official openui5 grunt plugin: npm install grunt-openui5 --save-dev.
Now you have all the tools necessary, you just need to tell grunt what it has to do. You should create a Gruntfile.js in the root of your project. In this file you should configure the grunt openui5 task as described in the official github page (I linked it above). You can find a similar file here (it has more build steps like minification and copying the result files in a separate directory).
You can then run the grunt build by simply running grunt <task_name> in the console. If you registered your build task as the grunt default task (like in the sample file: grunt.registerTask('default', [...]);) then you just have to write grunt.
I think you should be able to integrate such a command line script (i.e. to run grunt) inside your IDE as an external tool.
You can use the unofficial gulp-openui5 tool to generate it. I would not recommend this if you are not already using gulp for your builds (as it is not a tool built by SAP). The procedure is the same, but using gulp for building the app instead of grunt (so you need to install node, npm init, install gulp, create the Gulpfile, etc).
Note that for most of the above methods, you need nodejs, which you can download and install from here: https://nodejs.org/en/download/.

VS Code 3rd Party Intellisense not working

I am using the latest release build of VS Code (1.13.1) and I am having some issues with the IntelliSense when trying to use 3rd party libraries.
My example is using JQuery, I have installed JQuery via NPM and imported this into my main.ts file. according to the VS Code website, the IntelliSense should automatically pick up common libraries and display functions and members that are available to that language, so when I type $ and click the '.' key I should see "ajax" for example. I can get the IntelliSense working by installing the types in NPM (npm install #types/jquery).
Am I doing something wrong that might be stopping the automated process from occuring?
Many thanks
Stuart

Why does Yeoman generator not work when installed through npm?

Code
GitHub version: https://github.com/trevordmiller/generator-code-deck
npm version: https://www.npmjs.org/package/generator-code-deck
Background
I have built a Yeoman generator which is working perfectly locally (using npm link after cloning the repo from GitHub). However, when I npm publish the generator to npm and install it via npm install -g generator-code-deck, running the generator throws no such file or directory and cannot find module errors:
These errors don't make sense to me, because 1. the files and folders are obviously there (as shown by the screenshot doodles) and 2. the generator is working via a symbolic link to the local repo; why should the npm package be any different?
I have been searching online to find an answer but I can't find anything. Does anyone know why these errors are happening when trying to install via npm, but not via a symbolic link? Does anyone know how to fix this so that I can release the official npm version of the Yeoman generator? Any help would be much appreciated!
Chances are you're not publishing all files to npm.
This can be caused by a .npmignore file or by the files key of your package.json.