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<!doctype html> <html> <title>npm-link</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" value="text/html;utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../static/style.css"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.npmjs.org/doc/api/npm-link.html"> <script async=true src="../../static/toc.js"></script> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <h1><a href="../api/npm-link.html">npm-link</a></h1> <p>Symlink a package folder</p> <h2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2> <pre><code>npm.commands.link(callback) npm.commands.link(packages, callback) </code></pre><h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2> <p>Package linking is a two-step process.</p> <p>Without parameters, link will create a globally-installed symbolic link from <code>prefix/package-name</code> to the current folder.</p> <p>With a parameters, link will create a symlink from the local <code>node_modules</code> folder to the global symlink.</p> <p>When creating tarballs for <code>npm publish</code>, the linked packages are &quot;snapshotted&quot; to their current state by resolving the symbolic links.</p> <p>This is handy for installing your own stuff, so that you can work on it and test it iteratively without having to continually rebuild.</p> <p>For example:</p> <pre><code>npm.commands.link(cb) # creates global link from the cwd # (say redis package) npm.commands.link(&#39;redis&#39;, cb) # link-install the package </code></pre><p>Now, any changes to the redis package will be reflected in the package in the current working directory</p> </div> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 id=npmlogo> <tr><td style="width:180px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=18>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)">&nbsp;</td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4>&nbsp;</td><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)">&nbsp;</td><td colspan=6 style="width:60px;height:10px;background:#fff">&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2 style="width:20px;height:30px;background:#fff" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=4 colspan=2>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:20px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=2>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3 colspan=2>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=2>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff">&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td style="width:60px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=6>&nbsp;</td><td colspan=10 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)">&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=5 style="width:50px;height:10px;background:#fff">&nbsp;</td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=4>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:90px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=9>&nbsp;</td></tr> </table> <p id="footer">npm-link &mdash; npm@2.1.11</p>