Installing a local module using npm?

Question

I have a downloaded module repo, I want to install it locally, not globally in another directory?

What is an easy way to do this?

Answer 1

From the npm-link documentation:

In the local module directory:

$ cd ./package-dir
$ npm link

In the directory of the project to use the module:

$ cd ./project-dir
$ npm link package-name

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Or in one go using relative paths:

$ cd ./project-dir
$ npm link ../package-dir

This is equivalent to using two commands above under the hood.