nodejs application packaging guidelines?

[Richard PALO <richard%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Not being very familiar with nodejs, does there exist any pkgsrc guidelines
on how to deal with nodejs based packages using 'npm install' and 'grunt'

This application is a web client interface.

sort of scared the hell out of me trying a test build with only 'npm install'
as it seems to install a couple of hundred and various modules from github: with something called 'bower' into a node_modules directory under $WRKSRC.

worried this 'bower' may something of a 'pip' equivalent from python, I'm 
looking  for pointers on how to correctly install this beast in a manageable way avoiding nonsense.

if it is possible;)

(hopefully it's only a matter of commenting out the postinstall script from package.json which does a 'bower install', setting the appropriate dependencies and copying the necessary files to .destdir)

anybody do any of this before?

cheers, and thanks in advance.

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Richard PALO