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Pseudo workspace using local paths - As of NPM version 2.0.0 you can provide a path to a local directory that contains a package. The approach was very similar to the previous one, but with the improvement of defining the local dependency in the package.json file. It also produced undesired changes in the package-lock.json files and lots of other issues that also made hard to work with it. I even published my own tool providing a command line interface to link packages easier using local paths under the hood (now the package is pending to be deprecated).
Using Babel aliases - Using Babel or TypeScript aliases allows to change the import references, so when you import one package from another, it loads the one from the local workspace instead of the one downloaded by the NPM client. This is the approach that worked better for me, but it still requires some manual configuration for each package, and I don't like to always have to build my code just for these types of requirements. In fact, we'll see that this approach can still be used with some tools as Nx if you don't use Pnpm or other workspace tool.
Nx provides to us the other needed features. It is a monorepo tool that is able to make a dependencies analysis, detect affected projects, and orchestrate tasks. As an extra, it is plugabble, and it provides boilerplates to create monorepos for some specific libraries or frameworks, such as React, Angular, etc. But I personally prefer to use only the core features in order to avoid coupling my projects too much to a specific technology or plugin. Among other things, it provides:
Using Babel aliases - Using Babel or TypeScript aliases allows to change the import references, so when you import one package from another, it loads the one from the local workspace instead of the one downloaded by the NPM client. This is the approach that worked better for me, but it still requires some manual configuration for each package, and I don't like to always have to build my code just for these types of requirements. In fact, we'll see that this approach can still be used with some tools as Nx if you don't use Pnpm or other workspace tool.