I am building a react project for which I am using a 3rd party library. The library is available as an npm package, which solves the purpose. But the package is unreliable as it has very few downloads and not updated in years. I am trying to use it as a local package instead of a remote one. I npm installed it, but cant figure out to link it locally.
Note: I searched for other well maintained packages, but couldn't find one & I had to stick to this one.
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I'm wanting to create a React library that I can build locally and that deploys into the NPM global area. I want to be able to use my other React project that also sits on my machine and picks up changes as I modify the library. I have found plenty of tutorials that either deploy to NPM (which I don't want) or that I have no idea how to get it updating automatically to my project. I tried one with rollup.js that seemed to work for a while but then stopped for some reason.
Ideally looking for tutorial or source code that I can look at.
Do's: build locally, automatically update changes to my project
Don'ts: deploy to NPM or another external repository, cause problems when setup on another machine
Want: One library, one project, easy update to the project when the library is changed, be able to create an entry in the global install with the library version
Thanks
Paul
I'm struggling with making changes and possible a pull request for a third party react native package with cocoapods and auto linking.
In this case I want to add some minor functionality to React Native Camera. And I've forked the repo.
While developing I'd like to use my local code, but I can't get it to work.
I'ven tried using npm link, but this doesn't work since React Native can't find the linked package with the TypeScript import statement.
I've also tried just to edit Objective C code directly in node_modules, running pod install again and rerunning react-native run-ios, but it doesn't seem to include my changes.
I've never really made pull requests to other packages before, so I think I need some help. I thought this would be the easiest thing to google, but it turns out it's not.
You may be doing this already, but make sure that you clean and rebuild the project from xcode if you're modifying objective C code in the node modules folder, before re running react-native run-ios.
If you've already installed the library you also shouldn't need to rerun pod install.
Similarly on android, be sure to rebuild the project in android studio.
I hope this is a reasonable forum for this question.
I have a library of React components that I've developed that I'd like to use in multiple personal projects. When I update/improve that library I'd like it to allow me to update in all projects where it is used.
I'm using Meteor as a build tool, which will prompt me when there is an update available for a dependency it's using, so I assume it'd be an NPM module or something. It is checked in to GitHub and I don't mind if it's public.
What would be the best way to achieve this?
I know two ways:
Publish your module on NPM
Link using npm link
For the first one, your module will be public unless you pay NPM for a private module.
The second one, make your module available locally only (It is used for a development purpose, but it fits your needs).
https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/link
If you have your package published on GitHub, you can simply create dependency by linking to tarball/master. If your path is https://github.com/my-nick/my-package, just add to your dependencies in your project's package.json:
"my-package": "https://github.com/my-nick/my-package/tarball/master"
If you have your package well described (package.json file with name, main and version attributes) it should works after meteor npm install.
Of course it works for Meteor 1.3 and higher only, lower versions don't support npm.
I did not use is personally yet, but an frequently mentioned tool for this purpose is https://lernajs.io/, which is e.g. used by create-react-app.
We've been a Windows shop, mainly relying on Visual Studio as our IDE and build tool. We've begun to explore using Angular and node, and angular-cli.
We have a project that depends upon "angular-cli": "1.0.0-beta.10". I was trying to get this to build on a new machine.
I installed nodejs, then did a global install of angular-cli using npm:
npm install -g angular-cli
Then I tried to do a build:
ng build
I got an error:
It seems like you're using a project generated using an old version of the Angular CLI.
The latest CLI now uses webpack and has a lot of improvements including a simpler
workflow, a faster build, and smaller bundles.
To get more info, including a step-by-step guide to upgrade the CLI, follow this link:
https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/wiki/Upgrading-from-Beta.10-to-Beta.14
What I did to get things working was to uninstall angular-cli, and then install version beta.10
npm uninstall -g angular-cli
npm install -g angular-cli#1.0.0-beta.10
After that, things work just fine.
Unfortunately, that's not a solution.
We will, eventually, have multiple projects using node packages, we need them to be able to run simultaneously, without having to uninstall and reinstall global packages.
And we need to be able to run builds automatically on our build machines, without having to RDP into the build machines to mess about with which node packages are installed.
That is, if I have three projects that use angular-cli#1.0.0-beta.10, I expect all three to work on any of the developers machines, and that the build machines will be able to check out any of the three projects and successfully build them.
And if I update one to use beta-12, and another to use beta-14, I expect to be able to commit them to version control, and for the build machine to be able to check out any of three and still be able to build them, regardless of which version they use.
I thought the whole idea of tracking local dependencies in package.json, and storing local copies in node_modules was to avoid dependencies on globally installed packages.
How do people usually manage this issue?
Is there a way I can configure angular-cli so it doesn't depend upon a global install?
Are there other packages with which I'm likely to encounter similar problems? Is there an approach that will work for any of them?
The Angular-CLI can be run with, and the global ng command uses, a locally installed version for each project. This local version can be accessed using the command ./node_modules/.bin/ng
I recommend uninstalling the global CLI you have and taking the time to modify your package.json scripts to reference the local CLI installation rather than the global ng. This is my method to handle varied CLIs on my Jenkins server.
On that note, I do highly suggest following the instructions to move from Beta.10 to Beta.14 (https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/wiki/Upgrading-from-Beta.10-to-Beta.14) if you can stomach the change to WebPack. Any projects utilizing CLI Beta.14 or higher can be upgraded to the latest beta simply by uninstalling the CLI, reinstalling it, and then running ng init (Diff [d] any files you've modified!) to update the boilerplate.
Copy & Paste the typescript components html's and css/scss files to a new build, it's not even worth it to mess with the core build of those stuff.
Bear in mind that you might see imports being grayed and the same very imports to be needed to add in app.module.ts as its a core file nowadays to every single project of ours.
I'm currently working in a work environment where I do not have access to npm / node. The npm download location is actually blocked so I can't get any packages.
I want to build an Angular 2 site. As I can't access npm, I want to use Nuget to get the files. Although I can see the Angular 1 packages, I cannot seem to see any Angular 2 packages. Is there one for Nuget?
Also, is populating the node_module folder and compiling the Typescript the only thing that npm does for Angular? If I can just get a copy of the node_module folder (from outside work) and get TypeScript working in my solution, can I basically bypass the need for npm?
In short; No.
You can see a list of all available NuGet package versions here, with the most recent being 1.5.3.
Even performing a generic search shows most recent versions as 1.5.3.
Sometimes they'll have beta versions of packages available that you can install with a command similar to: Install-Package EntityFramework -Version 6.1.3-beta1 -Pre, but it doesn't appear as if they have created any pre-release packages.
So, as #Michal Dymel mentioned, you could get it from a CDN or some other location.