How to install a node js module without using npm

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There are quite a few modules which are listed on node s github page but are not published with the npm-registry  These modules can t be installed using npm    What is the correct way to install these nodejs modules after cloning them from Git

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You can clone the module directly in to your local project   Start terminal  cd in to your project and then   npm install https   github com repo npm module git --save

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Step-by-step    let s say you are working on a project use-gulp which uses requires  node modules like gulp and gulp-util  Now you want to make some modifications to gulp-util lib and test it locally with your use-gulp project     Fork gulp-util project on github bitbucket etc  Switch to your project  cd use-gulp node modules Clone gulp-util as gulp-util-dev   git clone https       gulp-util git gulp-util-dev Run npm install to ensure dependencies of gulp-util-dev are available  Now you have a mirror of gulp-util as gulp-util-dev  In your use-gulp project  you can now replace  require  gulp-util       call with   require  gulp-util-dev   to test your changes you made to gulp-util-dev

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You need to download their source from the github  Find the main file and then include it in your main file   An example of this can be found here   How to manually install a node js module   Usually you need to find the source and go through the package json file  There you can find which is the main file  So that you can include that in your application   To include example js in your app  Copy it in your application folder and append this on the top of your main js file   var moduleName   require  path to example js

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These modules can t be installed using npm   Actually you can install a module by specifying instead of a name a local path  As long as the repository has a valid package json file it should work   Type npm -l and a pretty help will appear like so   CLI      install     npm install  lt tarball file gt                  npm install  lt tarball url gt                  npm install  lt folder gt                  npm install  lt pkg gt                  npm install  lt pkg gt   lt tag gt                  npm install  lt pkg gt   lt version gt                  npm install  lt pkg gt   lt version range gt                                   Can specify one or more  npm install   foo tgz bar stable  some folder                 If no argument is supplied and   npm-shrinkwrap json is                  present  installs dependencies specified in the shrinkwrap                  Otherwise  installs dependencies from   package json   What caught my eyes was  npm install  lt folder gt  In my case I had trouble with mrt module so I did this  in a temporary directory   Clone the repo    git clone https   github com oortcloud meteorite git   And I install it globally with     npm install -g   meteorite     Tip  One can also install in the same manner the repo to a local npm project with       npm install    meteorite  And also one can create a link to the repo  in case a patch in development is needed       npm link    meteorite  Edit  Nowadays npm supports also github and git repositories  see https   docs npmjs com cli v6 commands npm-install   as a shorthand you can run   npm i github com some-user some-repo

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Download the code from github into the node modules directory  var moduleName   require   lt name of directory gt      that should do it   if the module has dependancies and has a package json  open the module and enter npm install   Hope this helps

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