[Contribution] How to test packages

[draylegend]

I forked and cloned the repo, changed source files and built affected packages. How can I test? Do I need to publish with verdaccio locally and then create new project with phero cli?

[JasperH8g]

Great to read you're doing this! What we do ourselves is differently between npx phero and @phero/server/@phero/client.

• npx phero: Run npx lerna run build in the phero-codebase, and in your example-project run npm i -g ../../path-to-phero-codebase/packages/cli so you can run npx phero to use your local phero. Don't forget to npm rm -g phero when you want to use the published version, because npx will try locally installed packages first before fetching remote ones.

• @phero/client/@phero/server: Run npx lerna run build in the phero-codebase, and run npm rm @phero/client && npm i ../../path-to-phero-codebase/packages/client (and replace client with server respectively). The uninstalling of the package helps with permissions-issues with the executable in node_modules/.bin.

Does that answer your question?