How to `yarn link` a dist folder?

Question

Is there a way to do a yarn link to a dist or lib folder?

Here is my code structure:

/package-a
  - package.json
  - src/
    - ...
  - dist/
    - ...

If I do cd dist && yarn link and do yarn link package-a to another project, it links the package-a root folder and not the dist, making the import looks like this:

import fn from 'package-a/dist/fn';

instead of simply:

import fn from 'package-a/fn';

Any way to make this work aside from manually doing a symlink?

Answer 1

yarn link will look for the folder where the package.json is in. So if you copy your package.json to your dist, it should work:

$ yarn unlink
$ cp package.json /dist
$ cd dist
$ yarn link