How to point dependency to a github branch

[sartaj10]

❔ Question

Hi,
I would like to point my dependency to a branch on github, rather than a particular version. In my package.json, I've pointed it like this :

"react-timeseries-charts": "esnet/react-timeseries-charts#fix-355"

However, this doesn't work and I get this message

Could not fetch dependencies, please try again in a couple seconds: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0

I saw an issue (#88) that suggests that this should work. Could you point me as to how to go about this?

Link to sandbox: link

Your Environment

Software	Name/Version
Сodesandbox
Browser	Chrome
Operating System	macOS Sierra

[tomasfrancisco]

I'm facing the same issue. I cannot figure out how to add a GitHub dependency.
Is it really supported?

I've tried the following:
lightbasenl/lightbot.js
lightbasenl/lightbot.js#master
https://github.com/lightbasenl/lightbot.js
https://github.com/lightbasenl/lightbot.js#master

None of them worked, unfortunately :(

Here's the example I'm working on: https://codesandbox.io/s/z6j7954jnx

[CompuIves]

It's possible to install GitHub dependencies. Keep in mind that we just serve the source files of the GitHub repo (like npm and yarn), we do run the postinstall script, so if you want to build some files you can put it in that step.

Regarding esnet/react-timeseries-charts#fix-355, I just found out that our caching system doesn't support # in the paths, that's why it's showing those errors. I can take a look at that.

Here's the example I'm working on: codesandbox.io/s/z6j7954jnx

I get a different error in that sandbox, about missing regeneratorRuntime. I think that's because babel-polyfill is not required in the project. Going to double check that.

Never mind, that's an issue on our side. Going to take a look!

Committed a fix on master for the regeneratorRuntime error.

[dai-shi]

A workaround is to use tar.gz URL:

"react-timeseries-charts": "https://github.com/esnet/react-timeseries-charts/archive/fix-355.tar.gz"

[dabernathy89]

Using the tar.gz URL doesn't seem to work anymore. Anyone figured out a working solution for pulling in a dependency from a Github branch?

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[perymimon]

It looks like Codesandbox using https://www.jsdelivr.com/ to supply the dependency.
and jsdeliver using git tag to find the repository.
so I end up with that steps for a solution :

1. push a new tag to my GitHub repository (tag v3.0.0)
2. then check it to work https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/perymimon/react-anime-manager@v3.0.0/package.json in the browser.
3. going to codesandbox/package.json
4. under "dependencies" add :
   "@perymimon/react-anime-manager": "perymimon/react-anime-manager#v3.0.0"

BUT it looks like I still can't import it to my file. in check on a sperate window and look on source/file-tree and not found the folder perymimon/react-anime-manager