Local dependency in package.json

Question

I want to do something like this, so npm install also installs the package.json of ../somelocallib or more importantly its dependencies.

"dependencies": {     "express": "*",     "../somelocallib": "*" } 

Answer 1

npm >= 2.0.0

This feature was implemented in the version 2.0.0 of npm. Local paths can be saved using npm install -S or npm install --save, using any of these forms:

../foo/bar ~/foo/bar ./foo/bar /foo/bar 

Example package.json:

{   "name": "baz",   "dependencies": {     "bar": "file:../foo/bar"   } } 

npm ls:

[email protected] /private/tmp/app └── [email protected] -> /private/tmp/somelocallib 

npm < 2.0.0

Put somelocallib as dependency in your package.json as normal:

"dependencies": {   "somelocallib": "0.0.x" } 

Then run npm link ../somelocallib and npm will install the version you're working on as a symlink.

Reference: link(1)