Modifying lib-jitsi-meet
By default the library is referenced as a prebuilt artifact in a GitHub release. Packages are NOT published to npm. The default dependency path in package.json is:
"lib-jitsi-meet": "https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet/releases/download/v<version>+<commit-hash>/lib-jitsi-meet.tgz)",
To work with local copy you may change the path to:
"lib-jitsi-meet": "file:///Users/name/local-lib-jitsi-meet-packed-copy.tgz",
In order to create the packed file run npm pack in the lib-jitsi-meet project directory.
To make the project you must force it to take the sources as 'npm update':
npm install lib-jitsi-meet --force && make
Or if you are making only changes to the library:
npm install lib-jitsi-meet --force && make deploy-lib-jitsi-meet
Alternative way is to use npm link.
It allows to link lib-jitsi-meet dependency to local source in few steps:
cd lib-jitsi-meet
#### create global symlink for lib-jitsi-meet package
npm link
cd ../jitsi-meet
#### create symlink from the local node_modules folder to the global lib-jitsi-meet symlink
npm link lib-jitsi-meet
Linking will not work when building the mobile applications.
After changes in your local lib-jitsi-meet repository, you can rebuild it with npm run build and your jitsi-meet repository will use that modified library:
cd node_modules/lib-jitsi-meet
npm run build
If you do not want to use local repository anymore you should run:
cd jitsi-meet
npm unlink lib-jitsi-meet
npm install