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Various ways to test a local module before publishing
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Always starts from changing node_modules/ directly, for more complex use cases

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npm link

/path/to/lib $ npm link
/path/to/app $ npm link lib
  • creates global symlink

npm install <pkg>

/path/to/app $ npm install /path/to/lib
- "@node-config": "2.0.22",
+ "@node-config": "file:../node-config",
  • modifies package.json as file:/path/to/lib
  • creates local symlink
  • runs preinstall/postinstall

npm pack

Do

/path/to/lib $ npm pack | tail -n 1

before npm i <pkg> and replace pkg with the generated tarball(pkg-[version].tgz) instead.

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lxynox commented Sep 15, 2019 •
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Summarized from https://medium.com/@the1mills/how-to-test-your-npm-module-without-publishing-it-every-5-minutes-1c4cb4b369be

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lxynox commented Nov 19, 2019

npm packsolution ⇢ https://github.com/mweststrate/relative-deps

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