Installing a local module using npm?

Question

I have a downloaded module repo, I want to install it locally, not globally in another directory?

What is an easy way to do this?

Answer 1

you just provide one <folder> argument to npm install, argument should point toward the local folder instead of the package name:

npm install /path 

Answer 2

From the npm-link documentation:

In the local module directory:

$ cd ./package-dir $ npm link 

In the directory of the project to use the module:

$ cd ./project-dir $ npm link package-name 

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Or in one go using relative paths:

$ cd ./project-dir $ npm link ../package-dir 

This is equivalent to using two commands above under the hood.