Substitute a package in NPM/Node

Question

Is it possible to force an external npm dependency to use a different node.js package that offers the same API but a different implementation?

Answer 1

If you're willing to do that and that module is open source you could fork that on github, change their package.json to include the module you want and use github url for your own package.json like this:

"modulename": "git+https://[email protected]/user/repo.git"