The npm install docs explains how to install a dependency from the github source code rather than using the npm registry.
It works well when your project isn't scoped, so that if I wanna install express I can just execute:
npm install https://github.com/expressjs/express
and it works well.
In the ionic plugin case, though, this doesn't work correctly. Ionic plugins are scoped, if I want to install the speech recognition plugin from the npm registry I can just execute:
npm install @ionic-native/speech-recognition
This is the @ionic-native/speech-recognition npm page.
On the right sidebar there's the link to the corresponding github page, which is https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-native.
If I try to execute:
npm i https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-native/speech-recognition
It installs only the @ionic-native dependency rather than the plugin.
The same about:
npm i @ionic-native/speech-recognition@https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-native
In both cases, the output is:
@ionic-native/speech-recognition@https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-native npm WARN @ionic-native/[email protected] requires a peer of @ionic-native/core@^5.1.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself. npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of webpack@^1.9 || ^2 || ^2.1.0-beta || ^2.2.0-rc || ^3.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
- [email protected] updated 1 package and audited 1602 packages in 38.072s
Which only adds the following row in the package.json:
"ionic-native": "git+https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-native.git"
If you are asking why I need it, it's because I need to install a forked repo.
How can I install a ionic plugin from the github repository?
Thank you
