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Building and Using NPM Packages Locally ​

Sometimes it is valuable to alter a package locally and use those changes as a dependency of another project. Once you have amde appropriate changes on your machine.

  1. Build the project. Conventially with a "script" field in package.json, use npm run build
  2. Go to the parent directory of dist/ (or wherever the compiled output is)
  3. Issue npm pack. This will create a .tgz compressed file with your custom package.
  4. Copy the .tgz file into the root of the project you wish to use it in.
  5. In package.json replace the version number with "<package_name>": "file:<packed-file>.tgz".
  6. Issue npm install with the new package.json

The custom package will now be in your node_modules/.

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