📦 NPM | Link

NPM link allows you to override where 📦 NPM gets a package from.

• npm-link | npm Docs*

Steps

Warning

npm link requires the versions of node to match.

1. Navigate to the locally cloned repository for a dependency you want to add
2. Note the name of the package in the package.json
3. Enter the command npm link
4. Navigate to the host application repository
5. Enter the command npm link <name-of-package>

At this point you will notice that the package that you linked will not be listed in the dependencies for the host app, but the package will appear as a symlink within that projects node_modules.