install npm package from github repo

[lechen26]

Hi

i have a repository of npm library which being used by other repos.
i want to be able to test this library properly before releasing a new release from specific branch.

i saw it is possible to install npm pacakge from github repository so i did the following:

• updated the library-repo to include prepare script like this:
  "preapre": "npm run build"
• updated one of the repository that using this library (repo1) on package.json with the following:
  "@org/library-repo": "github:org/library-repo#branch"
  (instead of "@org/library-repo": "0.0.1" )

when i do npm install on repo1 the package indeed installed but the library dependencies installed on the node_modules directory of the library , not on the local node_modules folder.
so when running the application, i get alot of 'cannot find module' errors as i require some of the transitive dependencies and do not directly exist.
copy the node_modules/@org/my-library-repo/node_modules into local node_modules solves this issue but it doesnt seems ideal.

what am i missing?
thanks!

[PenelopeFudd]

I had a problem like this, maybe it's the same thing:

$ git clone  git@github.com:iann0036/former2.git
$ cd former2/cli
$ former2   # command not found
$ npm install -g .
$ former2    # error (deepmerge.js not found)
$ npm install .
$ former2    # Works!

Apparently when you do 'npm install -g .' it doesn't run the "prepare" script; 'npm install .' does.
In this case, the prepare script is supposed to copy essential files from ../js/ into the current directory.

Ref: iann0036/former2#87

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