On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Phoscur <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> After reading this:
>
> http://www.debuggable.com/posts/how-to-fork-patch-npm-modules:4e2eb9f3-e584-44be-b1a9-3db7cbdd56cb
> I see there is a nice way to replace broken modules with your own
> patched ones. But this always involves git push and npm update commands
> when you change something. Isn't there an easier way to do this locally?
> Like linking the module folder in node_modules to my local checkout of
> the my forked module?
> How do I accomplish this on windows?
> Would it be better to just nest the projects?
>

`npm link` is pretty awesome.  It just adds a symlink under node_modules.

If it doesn't work on windows, just add the symlink manually.

`mklink /D .\node_modules\whatev ..\patched\whatev`

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