How to fork a dependency and use it locally in a project

HOTFIX_DEPENDENCY.md

How to fork a dependency and use it locally in a project

1. Clone the project

   [email protected]:author/my-dependency.git

2. Link the local fork into the project

   cd ../my-dependency # in package you want to link
   yarn link
   
   cd ../my-project # current project
   yarn link my-dependency

   This will create a symlink named my-project/node_modules/my-dependency that links to your local copy of the my-dependency project.

   You can see all linked dependencies like this:

   find node_modules/ -type l -ls -maxdepth 1

3. Make the desire changes and build the project

   git checkout -b fixed-an-issue
   
   vim src/faulty_file.ts
   
   yarn build # or whatever the build command is

4. Re-build your current project and test the changes

5. Submit a pull request for the dependency

   git add .
   git commit -m “fix: fixed an issue”
   git push