Pardon the title, it's terrible.
Situation:
I pull a github repo that represents a website. I build it locally for development. It's running on localhost.
It uses webpack, and has a series of node modules loaded.
I need to edit one of those modules and see the results on that website.
I then need to push those changes to the repo that builds to the npm module.
Ideally I do the edits on the npm module as a local pull of that repo, and the local website is referencing those changes and webpack watch is rebuilding as I go along, then when all good, I can do a pull request to that npm module.
What do I use to do this? Is their a common workflow or term for this so I can figure out how?
Thank you.
Note: I attempted to use npm link,
I.e. in the repo "custom-npm" I typed "npm link" Then in the website repo, in the node_modules/custom-npm folder I typed "npm link custom-npm"
error is: "custom-npm" is not in this registry
"custom-npm" is a github private package. Not sure if that does something here unintended...