Installing packages locally with Deno
I want a local copy of a
foo js (node) module in my project that I'll be able to serve to the browser directly (no bundling).
If I add it with deno add npm:foo then I can reference the module in my code but the browser won't be able to resolve foo.
So I would like to know how I can make a local install with Deno (that's not in the global cache but in my local project), so that I just need to serve this folder and add an importmap script to tell the browser how to resolve foo.
I could just npm install foo to have it in a local node_modules folder, but there must be a way to do this in Deno?
https://docs.deno.com/runtime/reference/cli/add/#optionsDeno
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Figured it out.
To enable local installs you need to set the
nodeModulesDir: "auto" in your config
https://docs.deno.com/runtime/fundamentals/node/#node_modulesDeno
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