Substitute a package in NPM/Node

Question

是否可以强制外部npm依赖项使用提供相同API但实现不同的其他node.js包？

Answer 1

You should be able to download the source of whatever module you would prefer and put that folder within your node_modules folder. From that point you simply require it within your Node.js app like any other NPM module.

Answer 2

如果您愿意这样做，并且该模块是开源的，则可以将其分叉到github上，更改其package.json以包含所需的模块，并为自己的package.json使用github url，如下所示：

"modulename": "git+https://git@github.com/user/repo.git"

Answer 3

I recommend downloading the code for the API you want, creating an src/assets folder, placing it in there, changing the package name in package.json to something not used in npm, then using 'require('newPackageName')' within your code.

If you decide to use some of package.json's capabilities to point towards a specific version (like using "1.4.7" as opposed to "^1.4.7") or if you point to a github address, be careful when you run npm update. It will replace your URL with the latest version in npmjs.org with that specific name. I don't know if it still does this in newer versions of npm, but in the version that works with Node.js 0.12, this is the default behavior.

I can tell you that node shrinkwrap will work, but it will prevent any other packages from being updated as well. No, you cannot just have one shrinkwrapped dependency, it has to be all of them, or npm update won't work.