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<h1><a href="../api/link.html">link</a></h1> <p>Symlink a package folder</p>
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<h2 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h2>
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<pre><code>npm.command.link(callback)
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npm.command.link(packages, callback)</code></pre>
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<h2 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h2>
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<p>Package linking is a two-step process.</p>
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<p>Without parameters, link will create a globally-installed
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symbolic link from <code>prefix/package-name</code> to the current folder.</p>
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<p>With a parameters, link will create a symlink from the local <code>node_modules</code>
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folder to the global symlink.</p>
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<p>When creating tarballs for <code>npm publish</code>, the linked packages are
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"snapshotted" to their current state by resolving the symbolic links.</p>
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<p>This is
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handy for installing your own stuff, so that you can work on it and test it
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iteratively without having to continually rebuild.</p>
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<p>For example:</p>
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<pre><code>npm.commands.link(cb) # creates global link from the cwd
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# (say redis package)
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npm.commands.link('redis', cb) # link-install the package</code></pre>
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<p>Now, any changes to the redis package will be reflected in
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the package in the current working directory</p>
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<p id="footer">link — npm@1.1.44</p>
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