patch-package VS video-extensions

In order to allow users to use their device as a controller to adjust the position of the camera and find stars, I use the depreciated DeviceOrientationControls by patching it back into Three. In order for DeviceOrientationControls to function, we need access the user to grant access to their device's orientation. I attempt to gain access to this, alongside their camera, during a previous step of the UX using a custom composable I wrote for this purpose. You can see that permission step in the mockup video above. Once this permission is granted, we can initialize our DeviceOrienationControls with a single line.

If you use Yarn, there’s the `yarn patch` command [1], which lets you maintain patches for your dependencies. Even though I try to upstream patches wherever possible, sometimes you just want to apply a quick patch and move on, especially if the dependency is poorly maintained or even worse, deeply nested in your dependency hierarchy. I use `yarn patch` regularly, it’s one of the main reasons why I moved to Yarn in the first place.

If you’re not using Yarn, there seems to be a similar thing on npm, `patch-package`. [2] I never had to use that though.

[1]: https://yarnpkg.com/cli/patch

[2]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package

You can use patch-package to edit the part of the library.

patch-package

NPM doesn't have a patch command, but you can use patch-package to achieve the same result.

If there's issue ticket discussing it and someone can fix it, ask for patch file and use patch-package to patch it

You can try this (I highly recommend you to use the Patch Package library to track changes on any external library that you are using. (https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package)

The metascraper-video package depends on the is-video package to determine if a tag contains a valid video URL, and is-video depends on the video-extensions package that holds a list of valid video extensions. Unfortunately, the video-extensions package hasn't been updated in a while now, so it doesn't support the m3u8 video extension (which is a popular video extension on the web nowadays). Until this pull request is released and is-video is updated to use the latest version of video-extensions, you can use patch-package with the following diff to manually patch the m3u8 support into video-extensions (by putting it into patches/video-extensions+1.1.0.patch).