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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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