Yes, it is possible to develop a Node. js application with no NPM registry binaries.
Type npm -l and a pretty help will appear like so : CLI: ... install npm install <tarball file> npm install <tarball url> npm install <folder> npm install <pkg> npm install <pkg>@<tag> npm install <pkg>@<version> npm install <pkg>@<version range> Can specify one or more: npm install ./foo.
npm install installs dependencies into the node_modules/ directory, for the node project you're working on. You can call install on another node. js project (module), to install it as a dependency for your project. npm run build does nothing unless you specify what "build" does in your package.
You need to download their source from the github. Find the main file and then include it in your main file.
An example of this can be found here > How to manually install a node.js module?
Usually you need to find the source and go through the package.json file. There you can find which is the main file. So that you can include that in your application.
To include example.js in your app. Copy it in your application folder and append this on the top of your main js file.
var moduleName = require("path/to/example.js")
These modules can't be installed using npm.
Actually you can install a module by specifying instead of a name a local path. As long as the repository has a valid package.json
file it should work.
Type npm -l
and a pretty help will appear like so :
CLI:
...
install npm install <tarball file>
npm install <tarball url>
npm install <folder>
npm install <pkg>
npm install <pkg>@<tag>
npm install <pkg>@<version>
npm install <pkg>@<version range>
Can specify one or more: npm install ./foo.tgz bar@stable /some/folder
If no argument is supplied and ./npm-shrinkwrap.json is
present, installs dependencies specified in the shrinkwrap.
Otherwise, installs dependencies from ./package.json.
What caught my eyes was: npm install <folder>
In my case I had trouble with mrt
module so I did this (in a temporary directory)
Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/oortcloud/meteorite.git
And I install it globally with:
npm install -g ./meteorite
One can also install in the same manner the repo to a local npm project with:
npm install ../meteorite
And also one can create a link to the repo, in case a patch in development is needed:
npm link ../meteorite
Nowadays npm supports also github and git repositories (see https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v6/commands/npm-install), as a shorthand you can run :
npm i github.com:some-user/some-repo
Download the code from github into the node_modules directory
var moduleName = require("<name of directory>")
that should do it.
if the module has dependancies and has a package.json, open the module and enter npm install.
Hope this helps
You can clone the module directly in to your local project.
Start terminal. cd in to your project and then:
npm install https://github.com/repo/npm_module.git --save
Step-by-step:
use-gulp
which
uses(require
s) node_modules
like gulp
and gulp-util
.gulp-util
lib and test it locally with your use-gulp
project... gulp-util
project on github\bitbucket etc.cd use-gulp/node_modules
gulp-util
as gulp-util-dev
: git clone https://.../gulp-util.git gulp-util-dev
npm install
to ensure dependencies of gulp-util-dev
are available.gulp-util
as gulp-util-dev
. In your use-gulp
project, you can now replace: require('gulp-util')...;
call with : require('gulp-util-dev')
to test your changes you made to gulp-util-dev
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