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Edevo
Edevo

Reputation: 51

Use Angular library in my project without publishing

I created Angular library My-lib , and I'm trying to use it in my application My-app but I don't want to publish it to NPM repo. I tryied to do the npm link after I build My-lib npm link /folder/My-lib/dist/My-lib and then in My-app folder npm link My-lib

But it didn't work, No package.json found, so I did the npm link on the root folder of the library and from My-app folder npm link full-path-to/My-lib, there I can see My-lib in the node-modules of My-app but when I try to import it get can't find module.

Is there a way to do this , or maybe I'm not doing the npm link the right way !

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4138

Answers (2)

Rohan Pawar
Rohan Pawar

Reputation: 49

cd lib/dist/My-lib
npm pack

once the .tgz is created inside lib/dist/My-lib then just pack it. generally npm publish do the

npm pack

behind the scene before publishing this is the artifact that is actually used when do

npm i My-lib

so in package.json

under dependencies you can include like

... "My-lib" : --the path to your My-lib-0.0.1.tgz-- ...

like

"My-lib" : "../My-lib-0.0.1.tgz"

Upvotes: 0

Lyams
Lyams

Reputation: 81

cd lib/dist/My-lib
npm pack
  • This will create a package tgz file which you can install directly in your app using by referring to this compressed file.
npm install ../dist/My-lib/My-lib-0.0.1.tgz

Upvotes: 6

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