A noob method of playing with Node modules

Steps to follow to update code from a node_module like d3-force directly !!

So what we get in a node_modules are the build folder that dont support HRM (hot reload module) so we have to make changes and then build that folder using the rollup module ( maybe we can use other libs also !!)

Steps:

1. Make that change in the file that you want !!(be it debugging statements or logic change )
2. Install the required files, using npm install and if required change the package manager from yarn to npm
3. Then lookup to package.json and you might find a function named “prepublishOnly”
4. Run the command npm run prepublishOnly, If the command requires the some folder , build those or remove those folders from the npm command !!
5. Then once you fix the errors , got the errors solved , then we build this file using npm run prepublishOnly
6. Then run the development server using the npm run dev -- --cache

This is how to rebuild a node-module !!

Github commands

git checkout -b branch_name
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/branch_name

or,

git checkout -b branch_name origin/branch_name

to check the remote of branch we get,

git status -sb : helps to find the remote branch

git config pull.rebase false: makes the default git behaviour as pull and merge git config pull.rebase true : pulls the latest commits to the branch and add your commits on top of that

         A---B---C   (origin/main)
        /
   M---N---X---Y     (your local main)

Rebase false

         A---B---C
        /         \
   M---N---X---Y---M'   ← your branch now
             ↑
        merge commit

Rebase True

   A---B---C---X'---Y'   ← your branch now