package-patcher

A small tool to create and apply patches on your node_modules using node resolve and jsdiff

Features

• Supports all package managers(npm,yarn,pnpm) via node resolve
• Backward compatibility with applying patches from patch-package

Installation

• npm npm i -D package-patcher

Usage

Creating patch

1. Update the package inside your node_modules/packages folder
2. Run npx package-patcher create <package-name>
3. It will create a patch file in patches folder

Apply patch

Run npx package-patcher apply

You can also add apply patch as your post install script package.json

{
  "scripts":{
    "apply-patch": "package-patcher apply",
    "postinstall": "npm run apply-patch"
  }
}

Known limitation

• Only supports npm registry for now
• Need to install in project as dev dependency to use it (global installation might not work)