I'm not familiar with npm so I might be holding the wrong end of the shovel here...

There is a package on npm that I would like to modify and use in my own project. The package is angular-crumbs. I forked the source repo (https://github.com/emilol/angular-crumbs) into my own account (https://github.com/capesean/angular-crumbs) and then run npm install capesean/angular-crumbs -force. However, this produces a node_modules folder in my project that hasn't been built (and whatever else - as I understand it) with the commands in the source repo's package.json file:

"build": "npm run clean && npm run transpile && npm run package && npm run minify && npm run copy"

i.e. it doesn't have the types, the correct package.json file, etc.

So my question is, how do I get the properly-built files (including type definitions, etc.) from my own repo to install or build-after-installing in my target project?

CodePudding user response：

I am not sure about what you're trying to do, are trying to work on the angular-crumbs source code, or are you trying to use it in your own project as a dependencuy ?

Anyway, running npm install will install all your dependencies so that you can directly use them in your project, those dependencies don't need to be built after they are installed.

In your case you seem to have an angular application (which is completely different from node.js), usually to start an angular app you can run ng serve which will build your source code and run an angular server so you can access it on localhost.