linking without rebuilding

[martunta]

is it possible to somehow link npm module created by create-react-library, so I would not need to run yarn build every time I make any changes in library, so they would appear in the apps that include the module?

[Bagera]

I'm not sure I'm the one to comment here but... Every time you mabe any changes to your library you have to build to transpile the es2015+ to es5 and that is what is used by your other apps.

Possible fixes:

• You could probably make a es2015+ library without transpiling (but I think that falls outside the scope of this repo) and just import that.
• You could make new scripts like npm run dev-build where you make something that watches the src/ and runs build when you make a change. Then make a PR and might get into the repo so I can use it :)
• Probably smarter ideas

[Bagera]

To use the module without having to build every time just add "module": "src/lib/index.js", to your package.json Warning! This will break compatibility with Create-react-app as it does not support es2015+ in linked modules. This obviously only works if you are symlinking or similar, not for a library on npm.