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": "*"
}
This feature was implemented in the version 2.0.0 of npm. Example:
{
"name": "baz",
"dependencies": {
"bar": "file:../foo/bar"
}
}
Any of the following paths are also valid:
../foo/bar
~/foo/bar
./foo/bar
/foo/bar
The local package will be copied to the prefix (./node-modules
).
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.
[email protected] /private/tmp/app
└── [email protected] -> /private/tmp/somelocallib
Reference: link(1)