An article on Medium by Alex Mills lays it out bare. It says the difference between npm link x and npm install /local/path/to/x are: The big difference is that npm install /local/path/x will run the preinstall/postinstall hooks, but npm link x will not. npm link uses the global NPM space, npm install /local/path/x does not. … Read more
The npm link command doesn’t work because React Native packager doesn’t support symlinks. After a little research, I discovered that there are two ways to go about it. Use haul packager in the example app. Haul supports symlinks, so you can use npm link as usual. Use local dependency via file:../ and then edit files … Read more
The package can be uninstalled using the same uninstall or rm command that can be used for removing installed packages. The only thing to keep in mind is that the link needs to be uninstalled globally – the –global flag needs to be provided. In order to uninstall the globally linked foo package, the following … Read more