Local Dependency in Package. Json
I Want to Do Something Like This, So Npm Install Also Installs the Package. Json Of. ./Somelocallib or More Importantly Its Dependencies. "Dependencies": {...
I want to do something like this, so npm install also installs the package.json of ../somelocallib or more importantly its dependencies.
"dependencies": {
"express": "*",
"../somelocallib": "*"
}
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npm >= 2.0.0
This feature was implemented in the version 2.0.0 of npm. Local paths can be saved using npm install -S or npm install --save, using any of these forms:
../foo/bar
~/foo/bar
./foo/bar
/foo/bar
Example package.json:
{
"name": "baz",
"dependencies": {
"bar": "file:../foo/bar"
}
}
npm ls:
app@0.0.1 /private/tmp/app
└── somelocallib@0.0.1 -> /private/tmp/somelocallib
npm < 2.0.0
Put somelocallib as dependency in your package.json as normal:
"dependencies": {
"somelocallib": "0.0.x"
}
Then run npm link ../somelocallib and npm will install the version you're working on as a symlink.
Reference: link(1)
It is now possible to specify local Node module installation paths in your package.json directly. From the docs:
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