NPM: After “npm link” module is not found

Question

I\'m developing two modules for NodeJS, first one named aligator and second one aligator-methods. Second one depends on first one to work. I\'m develop

Answer 1

Deleting package-lock.json then running npm install again resolved the issue for me.

Answer 2

I ran into this issue because of NVM, I was running one version of node for the dependency and another for the dependant.

Answer 3

The problem was that the main property of package.json was pointing to a non-existing file. It seems that the problem can happen due to multiple reasons so be sure to take a look at other answers.

Answer 4

When you first run npm link from the aligator directory, you create a link from your global node_modules directory to aligator. Then when you run the npm link aligator from the aligator-methods directory, you link aligator from your locally installed node_modules to the original source (as the output shows in your example above). Once this is done, there shouldn't be a need to install anymore since it's already "installed". What errors are you seeing after you run the npm link aligator command?

If you just want to install a dependency from a local directory, you might just try using npm install instead. For example:

$ cd ~/aligator-methods
$ npm install ../aligator