`npm install` from sub directory of a Git repository

Question

Greeting, I have created an angular library and I have built & pushed it into private repo in gitlab, now I need to consume it inside another project

so I have tried to import it using the following line in package.json

"my-core-lib": "git+ssh://[email protected]:<username>/my-core-lib.git"

But that was downloaded the whole repo and put it inside node_modules including "dist" folder

I need to import the content of "dist" folder and not the whole repo something like:

"my-core-lib": "git+ssh://[email protected]:<username>/my-core-lib.git/dist"

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

If the package source is hosted on GitHub, you can use GitPkg like this:

# using npm:
npm install https://gitpkg.now.sh/<user>/<project>/<subdir>?<commit-ish>
# using yarn:
yarn add https://gitpkg.now.sh/<user>/<project>/<subdir>?<commit-ish>

There is a nice wizard-like form at their site that helps build the URL, and the command to install it.