Modifying svelte charts

04 Dec 2023

Really quick post about modifying modules from an NPM import. I wanted to use the svelte charts library but adapt it. I tried editing the files in the node_modules folders but looks like they aren’t watched. Followed a few stackoverflow trails (this comment and this answer).

What you have to do is download the svelte chart repo locally and then from the project you’re working in tell npm to install it from a local dependency.

npm install --save /path/to/localversion

You’ll have to run npm install from the local folder (svelte-charts) to get all the stuff it relies on.

In the package.json it now lists the path of svelte-charts as a local one

"devDependencies": { "@onsvisual/svelte-charts": "file:../modified-svelte-charts",