NPM package url as dependency in mercurial(bitbucket)

Question

I have searched this topic for long time, currently all the solutions and examples work in git, but no direct solution for Mercurial.

Working example taken from somewhere similar links.

"private": true
to your package.json

Then to reference private npm module in package.json

{
    "name": "myapp",
    "dependencies": {
        "private-repo": "git+ssh://[email protected]:myaccount/myprivate.git#v1.0.0",
    }
}

As I read from official npm page this all works only with git https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#git-urls-as-dependencies

So how to do the same thing in Mercurial or currently it's seems to be possible only with Git ?

Answer 1

If you are using Bitbucket to host your project's Mercurial repo, it does provide links to download snapshots of your project as a tar.gz file. These URLs are actually usable in package.json dependencies.

For example, my pagedown project's download page has a link to this URL for a gzipped snapshot of the latest default branch changes:

https://bitbucket.org/ncraike/pagedown/get/default.tar.gz

so in another project's package.json, I can specify:

"dependencies": {
    "pagedown": "https://bitbucket.org/ncraike/pagedown/get/default.tar.gz"
}

npm handles this fine when I do an npm install from the dependent package, installing it correctly to the node_modules subdirectory.

This isn't a general solution for Mercurial repositories (and I agree it'd be nice if npm accepted Mercurial URLs as well) but this could be a reasonable workaround if you're using Bitbucket or a similar site for hosting.