How to install dependency in /src

[vodkaslime]

Hi folks, wondering how to just install a dependency library in /src in etherpad-lite.

My current working environment is Ubuntu with node@21.1.0 and npm@10.2.0.

Let's say I want to hack and play a bit with etherpad-lite, so I intend to install marked to /src. Typically to install an npm package, we just do npm install marked, right? However, after installing with this, the package.json.lock is then upgraded to version 3, which cannot be verified by ehterpad-lite installation, as mentioned at #6072.

So I manually reverted my working environment back to npm@5, but encountered more problems: marked requires higher version of node, rather than the ancient version of node@10 shipped with npm@5, etc. And also, it's obviously not best practice to always revert back to npm@5 to just please the lockfile version 1, right?

So getting a bit puzzled and wondering what is the best practice to add dependency to /src?

Thanks!

[SamTV12345]

Hi folks, wondering how to just install a dependency library in /src in etherpad-lite.

My current working environment is Ubuntu with node@21.1.0 and npm@10.2.0.

Let's say I want to hack and play a bit with etherpad-lite, so I intend to install marked to /src. Typically to install an npm package, we just do npm install marked, right? However, after installing with this, the package.json.lock is then upgraded to version 3, which cannot be verified by ehterpad-lite installation, as mentioned at #6072.

So I manually reverted my working environment back to npm@5, but encountered more problems: marked requires higher version of node, rather than the ancient version of node@10 shipped with npm@5, etc. And also, it's obviously not best practice to always revert back to npm@5 to just please the lockfile version 1, right?

So getting a bit puzzled and wondering what is the best practice to add dependency to /src?

Thanks!

You could either downgrade to npm@6 or use the develop version with the latest pnpm.