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Onkeltem
Onkeltem

Reputation: 2438

How to update NPM package installed from a Git repository?

I cannot figure out how to update a package installed from a git repository.

Say I have a package at git+ssh://[email protected]:project/my-package.git and it's already installed.

Now, if I:

  1. push into my-package master branch;
  2. run npm i or npm update;

then nothing gets updated.

I thought the version field (from the dependent package.json of my-package) might raise the problem so I removed it and re-installed the package from scratch. Unfortunately it didn't help, the package is still not being updated.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3766

Answers (1)

Onkeltem
Onkeltem

Reputation: 2438

Ok, folks. Suprisingly, it doesn't seem possible to get it working out-of-the-box.

But there is a workaround. Thanks to @RobC for pointing me out to some old (yet never resolved) issue: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/1727

The answer is in the last comment:

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/1727#issuecomment-354124625

Basically, to update a git package you have to re-install it directly using: npm install package-name.

Example. Say you already have your package installed and added to the dependencies like this:

{
    "dependencies": {
        "my-package": "git+ssh://[email protected]:prj/my-package.git"
    }
}

Now, to get it updated whenever you issue npm i all you have to do is to create a postinstall script which would trigger npm i my-package:

{
    "dependencies": {
        "my-package": "git+ssh://[email protected]:prj/my-package.git"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "postinstall": "npm update && npm i my-package"
    }
}

Now npm i will be taking more time since it's gonna run install twice. But this is what we have now.

Upvotes: 10

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