how should I use modified source code?

[jimmyzzzzzzz]

I downloaded some files form GitHub's master branch yesterday and modified their codes. Later, I tried to put it back to node_modules/parse-server/lib but they are incompatible. for example in Auth.js, the first 2 lines in GitHub's version are
var Parse = require('parse/node').Parse;
var RestQuery = require('./RestQuery');
but the first 2 lines in node_modules/parse-server/lib folder are
'use strict';
function _toConsumableArray(arr) { if (Array.isArray(arr)) { for (var i = 0, arr2 = Array(arr.length); i < arr.length; i++) { arr2[i] = arr[i]; } return arr2; } else { return Array.from(arr); } }. I'm using 2.3.6.
What is the preferred way to use modified parse-server source, directly modify node_modules/parse-server/lib or copy src folder to my project?

[natanrolnik]

Fork parse-server, and point in your package to use your own fork.

[acinader]

@jimmyzzzzzzz the parse source code is transpiled by babel.

Here's my package.json from an old branch that I needed to work on a remote machine: https://github.com/acinader/parse-server/blob/npm-git-workable/package.json

note that on line 66 I added the postinstall to build after npm has installed parse-server.....

Hopefully that helps some?

[jimmyzzzzzzz]

@acinader thanks a lot for your info on babel. it helped me a lot.
I modified package.json for 2.3.6 so that it will work with npm install.
https://gist.github.com/jimmyzzzzzzz/9d259f916cbbf58f7b8f3b9a04d72975
in case anyone else needs to install the newest version from own private repo.