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- <span class="description">Symlink a package folder</span>
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- <h2 id="table-of-contents">Table of contents</h2>
- <div id="_table_of_contents"><ul><li><a href="#synopsis">Synopsis</a></li><li><a href="#description">Description</a></li><li><a href="#caveat">Caveat</a></li><li><a href="#workspace-usage">Workspace Usage</a></li><li><a href="#configuration">Configuration</a></li><ul><li><a href="#save"><code>save</code></a></li><li><a href="#save-exact"><code>save-exact</code></a></li><li><a href="#global"><code>global</code></a></li><li><a href="#global-style"><code>global-style</code></a></li><li><a href="#legacy-bundling"><code>legacy-bundling</code></a></li><li><a href="#strict-peer-deps"><code>strict-peer-deps</code></a></li><li><a href="#package-lock"><code>package-lock</code></a></li><li><a href="#omit"><code>omit</code></a></li><li><a href="#ignore-scripts"><code>ignore-scripts</code></a></li><li><a href="#audit"><code>audit</code></a></li><li><a href="#bin-links"><code>bin-links</code></a></li><li><a href="#fund"><code>fund</code></a></li><li><a href="#dry-run"><code>dry-run</code></a></li><li><a href="#workspace"><code>workspace</code></a></li><li><a href="#workspaces"><code>workspaces</code></a></li><li><a href="#include-workspace-root"><code>include-workspace-root</code></a></li></ul><li><a href="#see-also">See Also</a></li></ul></div>
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- <div id="_content"><h3 id="synopsis">Synopsis</h3>
- <pre lang="bash"><code>npm link (in package dir)
- npm link [<@scope>/]<pkg>[@<version>]
- alias: npm ln
- </code></pre>
- <h3 id="description">Description</h3>
- <p>This is handy for installing your own stuff, so that you can work on it and
- test iteratively without having to continually rebuild.</p>
- <p>Package linking is a two-step process.</p>
- <p>First, <code>npm link</code> in a package folder will create a symlink in the global
- folder <code>{prefix}/lib/node_modules/<package></code> that links to the package
- where the <code>npm link</code> command was executed. It will also link any bins in
- the package to <code>{prefix}/bin/{name}</code>. Note that <code>npm link</code> uses the global
- prefix (see <code>npm prefix -g</code> for its value).</p>
- <p>Next, in some other location, <code>npm link package-name</code> will create a
- symbolic link from globally-installed <code>package-name</code> to <code>node_modules/</code> of
- the current folder.</p>
- <p>Note that <code>package-name</code> is taken from <code>package.json</code>, <em>not</em> from the
- directory name.</p>
- <p>The package name can be optionally prefixed with a scope. See
- <a href="../using-npm/scope.html"><code>scope</code></a>. The scope must be preceded by an @-symbol and
- followed by a slash.</p>
- <p>When creating tarballs for <code>npm publish</code>, the linked packages are
- “snapshotted” to their current state by resolving the symbolic links, if
- they are included in <code>bundleDependencies</code>.</p>
- <p>For example:</p>
- <pre lang="bash"><code>cd ~/projects/node-redis # go into the package directory
- npm link # creates global link
- cd ~/projects/node-bloggy # go into some other package directory.
- npm link redis # link-install the package
- </code></pre>
- <p>Now, any changes to <code>~/projects/node-redis</code> will be reflected in
- <code>~/projects/node-bloggy/node_modules/node-redis/</code>. Note that the link
- should be to the package name, not the directory name for that package.</p>
- <p>You may also shortcut the two steps in one. For example, to do the
- above use-case in a shorter way:</p>
- <pre lang="bash"><code>cd ~/projects/node-bloggy # go into the dir of your main project
- npm link ../node-redis # link the dir of your dependency
- </code></pre>
- <p>The second line is the equivalent of doing:</p>
- <pre lang="bash"><code>(cd ../node-redis; npm link)
- npm link redis
- </code></pre>
- <p>That is, it first creates a global link, and then links the global
- installation target into your project’s <code>node_modules</code> folder.</p>
- <p>Note that in this case, you are referring to the directory name,
- <code>node-redis</code>, rather than the package name <code>redis</code>.</p>
- <p>If your linked package is scoped (see <a href="../using-npm/scope.html"><code>scope</code></a>) your
- link command must include that scope, e.g.</p>
- <pre lang="bash"><code>npm link @myorg/privatepackage
- </code></pre>
- <h3 id="caveat">Caveat</h3>
- <p>Note that package dependencies linked in this way are <em>not</em> saved to
- <code>package.json</code> by default, on the assumption that the intention is to have
- a link stand in for a regular non-link dependency. Otherwise, for example,
- if you depend on <code>redis@^3.0.1</code>, and ran <code>npm link redis</code>, it would replace
- the <code>^3.0.1</code> dependency with <code>file:../path/to/node-redis</code>, which you
- probably don’t want! Additionally, other users or developers on your
- project would run into issues if they do not have their folders set up
- exactly the same as yours.</p>
- <p>If you are adding a <em>new</em> dependency as a link, you should add it to the
- relevant metadata by running <code>npm install <dep> --package-lock-only</code>.</p>
- <p>If you <em>want</em> to save the <code>file:</code> reference in your <code>package.json</code> and
- <code>package-lock.json</code> files, you can use <code>npm link <dep> --save</code> to do so.</p>
- <h3 id="workspace-usage">Workspace Usage</h3>
- <p><code>npm link <pkg> --workspace <name></code> will link the relevant package as a
- dependency of the specified workspace(s). Note that It may actually be
- linked into the parent project’s <code>node_modules</code> folder, if there are no
- conflicting dependencies.</p>
- <p><code>npm link --workspace <name></code> will create a global link to the specified
- workspace(s).</p>
- <h3 id="configuration">Configuration</h3>
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- <h4 id="save"><code>save</code></h4>
- <ul>
- <li>Default: true</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Save installed packages to a package.json file as dependencies.</p>
- <p>When used with the <code>npm rm</code> command, removes the dependency from
- package.json.</p>
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- <h4 id="save-exact"><code>save-exact</code></h4>
- <ul>
- <li>Default: false</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Dependencies saved to package.json will be configured with an exact version
- rather than using npm’s default semver range operator.</p>
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- <h4 id="global"><code>global</code></h4>
- <ul>
- <li>Default: false</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Operates in “global” mode, so that packages are installed into the <code>prefix</code>
- folder instead of the current working directory. See
- <a href="../configuring-npm/folders.html">folders</a> for more on the differences in behavior.</p>
- <ul>
- <li>packages are installed into the <code>{prefix}/lib/node_modules</code> folder, instead
- of the current working directory.</li>
- <li>bin files are linked to <code>{prefix}/bin</code></li>
- <li>man pages are linked to <code>{prefix}/share/man</code></li>
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- <ul>
- <li>Default: false</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Causes npm to install the package into your local <code>node_modules</code> folder with
- the same layout it uses with the global <code>node_modules</code> folder. Only your
- direct dependencies will show in <code>node_modules</code> and everything they depend
- on will be flattened in their <code>node_modules</code> folders. This obviously will
- eliminate some deduping. If used with <code>legacy-bundling</code>, <code>legacy-bundling</code>
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- <ul>
- <li>Default: false</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Causes npm to install the package such that versions of npm prior to 1.4,
- such as the one included with node 0.8, can install the package. This
- eliminates all automatic deduping. If used with <code>global-style</code> this option
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- <ul>
- <li>Default: false</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>If set to <code>true</code>, and <code>--legacy-peer-deps</code> is not set, then <em>any</em>
- conflicting <code>peerDependencies</code> will be treated as an install failure, even
- if npm could reasonably guess the appropriate resolution based on non-peer
- dependency relationships.</p>
- <p>By default, conflicting <code>peerDependencies</code> deep in the dependency graph will
- be resolved using the nearest non-peer dependency specification, even if
- doing so will result in some packages receiving a peer dependency outside
- the range set in their package’s <code>peerDependencies</code> object.</p>
- <p>When such and override is performed, a warning is printed, explaining the
- conflict and the packages involved. If <code>--strict-peer-deps</code> is set, then
- this warning is treated as a failure.</p>
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- <h4 id="package-lock"><code>package-lock</code></h4>
- <ul>
- <li>Default: true</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>If set to false, then ignore <code>package-lock.json</code> files when installing. This
- will also prevent <em>writing</em> <code>package-lock.json</code> if <code>save</code> is true.</p>
- <p>When package package-locks are disabled, automatic pruning of extraneous
- modules will also be disabled. To remove extraneous modules with
- package-locks disabled use <code>npm prune</code>.</p>
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- <h4 id="omit"><code>omit</code></h4>
- <ul>
- <li>Default: ‘dev’ if the <code>NODE_ENV</code> environment variable is set to
- ‘production’, otherwise empty.</li>
- <li>Type: “dev”, “optional”, or “peer” (can be set multiple times)</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Dependency types to omit from the installation tree on disk.</p>
- <p>Note that these dependencies <em>are</em> still resolved and added to the
- <code>package-lock.json</code> or <code>npm-shrinkwrap.json</code> file. They are just not
- physically installed on disk.</p>
- <p>If a package type appears in both the <code>--include</code> and <code>--omit</code> lists, then
- it will be included.</p>
- <p>If the resulting omit list includes <code>'dev'</code>, then the <code>NODE_ENV</code> environment
- variable will be set to <code>'production'</code> for all lifecycle scripts.</p>
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- <h4 id="ignore-scripts"><code>ignore-scripts</code></h4>
- <ul>
- <li>Default: false</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>If true, npm does not run scripts specified in package.json files.</p>
- <p>Note that commands explicitly intended to run a particular script, such as
- <code>npm start</code>, <code>npm stop</code>, <code>npm restart</code>, <code>npm test</code>, and <code>npm run-script</code>
- will still run their intended script if <code>ignore-scripts</code> is set, but they
- will <em>not</em> run any pre- or post-scripts.</p>
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- <h4 id="audit"><code>audit</code></h4>
- <ul>
- <li>Default: true</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>When “true” submit audit reports alongside the current npm command to the
- default registry and all registries configured for scopes. See the
- documentation for <a href="../commands/npm-audit.html"><code>npm audit</code></a> for details on what is
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- <h4 id="bin-links"><code>bin-links</code></h4>
- <ul>
- <li>Default: true</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Tells npm to create symlinks (or <code>.cmd</code> shims on Windows) for package
- executables.</p>
- <p>Set to false to have it not do this. This can be used to work around the
- fact that some file systems don’t support symlinks, even on ostensibly Unix
- systems.</p>
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- <h4 id="fund"><code>fund</code></h4>
- <ul>
- <li>Default: true</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>When “true” displays the message at the end of each <code>npm install</code>
- acknowledging the number of dependencies looking for funding. See <a href="../commands/npm-fund.html"><code>npm fund</code></a> for details.</p>
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- <h4 id="dry-run"><code>dry-run</code></h4>
- <ul>
- <li>Default: false</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Indicates that you don’t want npm to make any changes and that it should
- only report what it would have done. This can be passed into any of the
- commands that modify your local installation, eg, <code>install</code>, <code>update</code>,
- <code>dedupe</code>, <code>uninstall</code>, as well as <code>pack</code> and <code>publish</code>.</p>
- <p>Note: This is NOT honored by other network related commands, eg <code>dist-tags</code>,
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- <ul>
- <li>Default:</li>
- <li>Type: String (can be set multiple times)</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Enable running a command in the context of the configured workspaces of the
- current project while filtering by running only the workspaces defined by
- this configuration option.</p>
- <p>Valid values for the <code>workspace</code> config are either:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Workspace names</li>
- <li>Path to a workspace directory</li>
- <li>Path to a parent workspace directory (will result in selecting all
- workspaces within that folder)</li>
- </ul>
- <p>When set for the <code>npm init</code> command, this may be set to the folder of a
- workspace which does not yet exist, to create the folder and set it up as a
- brand new workspace within the project.</p>
- <p>This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.</p>
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- <h4 id="workspaces"><code>workspaces</code></h4>
- <ul>
- <li>Default: null</li>
- <li>Type: null or Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Set to true to run the command in the context of <strong>all</strong> configured
- workspaces.</p>
- <p>Explicitly setting this to false will cause commands like <code>install</code> to
- ignore workspaces altogether. When not set explicitly:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Commands that operate on the <code>node_modules</code> tree (install, update, etc.)
- will link workspaces into the <code>node_modules</code> folder. - Commands that do
- other things (test, exec, publish, etc.) will operate on the root project,
- <em>unless</em> one or more workspaces are specified in the <code>workspace</code> config.</li>
- </ul>
- <p>This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.</p>
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- <ul>
- <li>Default: false</li>
- <li>Type: Boolean</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Include the workspace root when workspaces are enabled for a command.</p>
- <p>When false, specifying individual workspaces via the <code>workspace</code> config, or
- all workspaces via the <code>workspaces</code> flag, will cause npm to operate only on
- the specified workspaces, and not on the root project.</p>
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- <ul>
- <li><a href="../using-npm/developers.html">npm developers</a></li>
- <li><a href="../configuring-npm/package-json.html">package.json</a></li>
- <li><a href="../commands/npm-install.html">npm install</a></li>
- <li><a href="../configuring-npm/folders.html">npm folders</a></li>
- <li><a href="../commands/npm-config.html">npm config</a></li>
- <li><a href="../configuring-npm/npmrc.html">npmrc</a></li>
- </ul>
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