如何与我的应用一起开发已安装npm的软件包？

Question

I'm working on my application. In parallel, I'm working on updating(and adding to) a couple of the npm installed submodules at the same time.

In my package.json dependencies I have:

"zeke-bootstrap": "git://github.com/twilson63/zeke-bootstrap.git",

When I do npm install, it goes and checks out the repository and puts it under node modules just fine. My question is how to I setup this directory so that I can use git, and do commits, and eventually a push to send my changes in my dependent directory back up to github?

Thanks,

Fred

Answer 1

You can checkout your git repo in the node_modules folder under the same folder name as your module and node will automatically use it. However, I don't think its a very good idea. Modules are modules because they are meant to be developed separately.