Modifying lib-jitsi-meet
By default the library is built from its git repository sources. The default dependency path in package.json is:
"lib-jitsi-meet": "jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet#commit-hash",
To work with local copy you may change the path to:
"lib-jitsi-meet": "file:///Users/name/local-lib-jitsi-meet-copy",
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
note
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 install and your jitsi-meet repository will use that modified library.
If you do not want to use local repository anymore you should run:
cd jitsi-meet
npm unlink lib-jitsi-meet
npm install