linkaroo

_"g'day"

linkaroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Has npm link or yarn link got you down?

Does your linked package have troublesome "singleton" dependencies that begin to double-up, like react?

Maybe your code bundler trips up when traversing weird ol' symlinks?

Perhaps you're allergic to or straight up don't trust those `link` commands? ‍

...

Well, give up now and try linkaroo. wink

Install

npm i -g linkaroo

Usage

Step 1.

Paaaaack your package!

$ cd my-pkg && npm run build
$ linkaroo pack

Step 2.

Liiiiiink it up!

$ cd my-app
$ linkaroo link "my-pkg@1.0.0"

Step 3.

Repeat steps 1 & 2 when my-pkg chaaaaanges.

DONE

DONE

_{Sponsored* by the Australian Government}

_{*: It's not}

Problem Background

Using npm/yarn link can be dissapointing in real life, because our node & bundlers get messed up traversing symlinks; they get stuck and find interdependant packages they were NOT suppose to...

So let's just pretend to publish and install during local iterations.

That's what these two commands pretend to do:

1. pack will prepare your package in a tarball (like publishing) and put it somewhere safe on your machine
2. link will unpack that tarball into your other dependants node_modules/ directory (like a dirty lazy npm install)

Legal

Thanks to the NPM team for making their CLI easy to use.

MIT