Tidy nodejs/npm usage

README.md

@@ -3,13 +3,16 @@
 
 Browser solidity is a browser based solidity compiler. To use either visit https://chriseth.github.io/browser-solidity or clone/download this repo and open `index.html` in your browser.
 
-#Solidity compiler
+#Nodejs usage
 
-To use the solidity compiler via nodejs you can do the following:
+To use the solidity compiler via nodejs you can install it via npm
+
+	npm install --save solc
+
+And then use it like so:
 
 	var solc = require('solc');
-	var compileJSON = solc.cwrap("compileJSON", "string", ["string", "number"]);
 	var input = "contract x { function g() {} }";
-	var output = JSON.parse(compileJSON(input, 1)); // 1 activates the optimiser
+	var output = solc.compile(input, 1); // 1 activates the optimiser
 	for (var contractName in output.contracts)
 		console.log(contractName + ': ' + output.contracts[contractName].bytecode);

index.js

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+
+var soljson = require('./bin/soljson-latest.js');
+
+compileJSON = soljson.cwrap("compileJSON", "string", ["string", "number"]);
+
+module.exports = {
+	compile: function(input, optimise){
+		return JSON.parse( compileJSON(input, optimise) );
+	}
+}

package.json

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
   "name": "solc",
   "version": "0.1.3",
   "description": "Solidity compiler",
-  "main": "soljson-latest.js",
+  "main": "index.js",
   "bin": {
-    "solc": "soljson-latest.js"
+    "solc": "bin/soljson-latest.js"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"