Show HN: Quickfix, the best stupid idea for fixing problems in Node modules

Re:Show HN: Quickfix, the best stupid idea for fixing proble... by andreineculau on Friday November 17, 2017 @10:25AM (#15722658)

Leaving aside the comedic factor, albeit problem-solving, if you want a sane alternative check out pnpm. It will not only make the installation of deps faster but it will also allow you to override a dependency on any n-level e.g. a dependency of a dependency.

A dependency published a patch version with a breaking change and the author is on vacation? No problem, you can lock it within your project to the previous version.

Did you fork a dependency and you want to use your version? You can do that too. In all of your dependency chain. You can even change the version specifier to a git url so no need to publish your fork to the npm registry.

I whole heatedly recommend anyone to have a look at pnpm. As a unix dev, there's so much in there that is well thought and kept simple this fast.

https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/blob/master/README.md#hooks

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Re:Show HN: Quickfix, the best stupid idea for fixing proble... by exogen on Friday November 17, 2017 @10:57AM (#15723016)

That’s an interesting approach to it (modifying how the package.json is processed).

If anyone is wondering if their current package manager supports this, it does if you are using Yarn. Yarn has a `resolutions` field to override subdeps (either globally or in a targeted way): https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/selective-version-resolutio...

It’s not as low-level and flexible as pnpm’s approach, but is perfect for the use case described here.

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Re:Show HN: Quickfix, the best stupid idea for fixing proble... by andreineculau on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:21PM (#15725143)

Correct. The pnpm approach is more versatile. You can do anything to a dependency's package.json . I have recently used it to debug and then monkey patch "scripts" (property) invocations without even forking the dependency.

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Re:Show HN: Quickfix, the best stupid idea for fixing proble... by zkochan on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:20PM (#15725138)

Actually, I have written an article about this when the feature was added to pnpm: Why package managers need hook systems (https://medium.com/pnpm/why-package-managers-need-hook-syste...).

Also, soon pnpm will support aliases and that will make the hook system even more powerful

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