Exporting Multiple Entrypoints

Note: this tutorial builds upon the Getting Started tutorial so if you haven't gone through it, you should do that first.

A repository with the end result of this tutorial is available at https://github.com/preconstruct/a-random-number-with-create

Curious why you would want multiple entrypoints in a package? Read the When should I use multiple entrypoints? guide.

We're going to create another package from a-random-number called a-random-number-with-create and add another entrypoint called create so that people can import a-random-number-with-create/create to create their own random numbers and still import a-random-number-with-create to get a random number.

First, we'll create src/create.js.

export let createRandom = () => Math.random();

We'll also make src/index.js use it.

import { createRandom } from "./create";

export let random = createRandom();

Then we can set what the entrypoints for our package should be in our package.json

"preconstruct": {
  "entrypoints": [
    "index.js",
    "create.js"
  ]
}

If we run yarn preconstruct fix now, Preconstruct will create a package.json at create/package.json that will allow people to import a-random-number-with-create/create and have the CommonJS bundle loaded when required in Node and the ESM file loaded in bundlers.

Now if we run yarn preconstruct build and publish the package, users can import a-random-number-with-create/create.