Various ways to test a local module before publishing

test-local-module.md

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.

Summarized from https://medium.com/@the1mills/how-to-test-your-npm-module-without-publishing-it-every-5-minutes-1c4cb4b369be

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