Today I Learned - Rocky Kev

TIL Adding a repo as a dependency in package.js

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TAGS: javascript npm

npm install --save username/repo#branch-name-or-commit-or-tag

The above installs a node package from github into your node_modules folder and automatically adds the dependency to your package.json! It’s marginally safer to install at a specific commit hash or git tag instead of a branch name. This way your dependency is tied to a specific commit, instead of whatever the latest commit is on a branch.

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