wclr/yalc

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6306 stars · 165 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Yalc is a CLI tool that manages a local store of npm/yarn packages so you can test locally developed packages in other projects without publishing to a remote registry. It improves on npm/yarn link by copying published package content and injecting file: dependencies instead of relying on symlinks.

Use cases

• test a local package in another project without publishing to npm
• replace npm link / yarn link workflow for package authors
• develop multiple interdependent packages locally
• inject a WIP package version into a project's package.json
• share unpublished packages across local projects

When to choose

• you author npm/yarn packages and need to test them in consuming projects before publishing
• symlink-based npm/yarn link causes dependency resolution or filesystem problems
• you work with yarn, npm, or pnpm workspaces and need local package injection

When to avoid

• you only consume published packages and never develop packages locally
• your project uses package managers other than npm/yarn/pnpm for package.json dependencies
• you need full monorepo dependency hoisting rather than single-package injection

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

package-manager developer-tools cli developer-tools web-development cli cross-platform npm yarn local-package-development monorepo package-linking typescript command-line nodejs

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