Hello everybody, how can i instruct gradle to get ...

# javascript

[Jan Biedermann]

Hello everybody, how can i instruct gradle to get a npm dependency directly from a github repo instead of npmjs.com?

[Edoardo Luppi]

That would have to pass through yarn or npm. Do yarn or npm allow doing that?

[Jan Biedermann]

npm does, i would assume yarn does too, but i dont know for sure

[Edoardo Luppi]

Try using the package@<git remote url> notation instead of the npm package name.

[Edoardo Luppi]

Example from SO:

fancybox@https://github.com/fancyapps/fancybox

[Jan Biedermann]

No, that won't work

[Edoardo Luppi]

Have a you got an example of a repo I can try out?

[Jan Biedermann]

Any repo with a package from npm with a package.json in its root should work, eg. https://github.com/websockets/ws

for npm its as simple as using
npm i websockets/ws which will pull it from github.

However, the gradle plugin always attaches a @x.x.x which makes things fail.

I am looking around in the kotlin repo, to find the responsible code ... thought takes me a while ...

[Edoardo Luppi]

Here you go:

implementation(npm("ws", "<https://github.com/websockets/ws>"))

A bit of a hack, but it works under Yarn : )

[Jan Biedermann]

Cool, thanks a lot!