packserve v0.0.2

packserve

Serve package tarballs over HTTP. This is especially useful to test packages as-if they were served via NPM.

Why not npm link

npm link will only create a symlink to the package source, which may include files that will be not present in the actual published package. It will also symlink the node_modules directory, which may accidentally pull dependencies that would've not been installed otherwise.

Usage

npx packserve -p 3123 -d ./packages/sdk-js ./packages/sdk-js-react

After which you can consume the packages with:

npm install --save-dev http://localhost:3123/123/sdk-js@1.0.0

Bumping the nonce

To bust the NPM cache, you must bump the nonce within your package.json, which will trigger a new npm pack invocation.