Installing private NPM module over GIT, and having it update?

I looked at this answer, which shows you how to install npm modules from private git (sub)folders. This works correctly for me when I do: npm install git+ssh://[email protected]:myaccount/myprivate.git, my main application can then call the code in the private module.

But when someone updates the module in the github.com:myaccount/myprivate.git location, I want my main application to receive these updated changes.

What I want to do is:

run npm install on the main application
have it update with the new code in the private module
... however the above does NOT update with the new code in the private module

As a work-around I have to:

run npm install git+ssh://[email protected]:myaccount/myprivate.git in the main application
the new code in the private module is now in the main application
... however I don't want to do this for every single application that is calling the private module. If for example 10 applications are calling my one module, that is many places I need to update manually

Solution

You could use git commit hashes to keep track of your changes:

npm i --save git+ssh://[email protected]:myaccount/myprivate.git#b0f2009

or tags

npm i --save git+ssh://[email protected]:myaccount/myprivate.git#v0.0.2