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A trick for developing npm dependencies
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If you don't want to go through the trouble of managing npm link you can call your development directory node_modules, like so:

$ mkdir node_modules
$ cd node_modules
$ git clone project1
$ git clone project2

Now if project1 has a dependency on project2 but you want to develop against your local version:

$ cd project1
$ npm uninstall project2

Now when node tries to resolve the project2 dependency in project1, it will walk up the directory tree to your cleverly-named node_modules and find the dependency it's looking for. When you want to use the published version again, just go into project 1 and npm install again.

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