Reuse Angular 2 module in other app without publishing to npm?

Question

Say you have two different Angular 2 apps and both of them need to make use of the same component.

I created the common component, made a library following this tutorial http://blog.angular-university.io/how-to-create-an-angular-2-library-and-how-to-consume-it-jspm-vs-webpack/, but npm will make my code public and I will have to pay to make it private.

So, the questions are:

1. How should I create components the can be available for the work team?
2. Is it necessary to publish to npm or can I just push my code to private github repo? And if so, how should I do that and what would be the process to reuse the code in an app?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

package.json allows you to reference packages downloaded from a git repository, and this could be the one you use internally. See NPM documentation

Example of formats:

git+ssh://[email protected]:npm/npm.git#v1.0.27
git+ssh://[email protected]:npm/npm#semver:^5.0
git+https://[email protected]/npm/npm.git
git://github.com/npm/npm.git#v1.0.27

So this would in your package.json give something like:

"dependencies": {
   "privatepackage":"git://localgitserver/git/privatepackage.git"
}