How to force your version of a package as a dependency?

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I made a fork of flow router and now I would like that Meteor uses that in my app for all dependencies of all packages I am using, which depend on kadira:flow-router. But even if I have api.imply('kadira:flow-router@2.10.0') in my package.js Meteor still loads kadira:flow-router as a dependency. The consequence is that I have now two routers in the app but routes are registered to only one, so I am getting errors like There is no route for the path: /.

It seems that the only way to go around this is to put a package inside packages directory. But this is exactly what I wanted to avoid by publishing my own fork of the package.

So, why doesn’t imply work and make it replace the dependency everywhere?

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It seems to work with such dummy package but this is really overkill? Can this be automatized?

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Can you not pin it down with @=?

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Isn’t that just for pinning the version? I do not see how this could help here.

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Oh now I see.

And your solution seems very clever.

I take a different approach. I fork the package to put it in my packages directory, don’t change the name, just increment the semver version number with _1 and then pin that version down as a dependency.

That way, the app does not check package server for that dependency. And any other package that depends on it out of my control also get to use my version.

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Yes, I wanted to avoid the git submodule inside the packages. But it seems that is not possible.

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Agreed, I don’t like submodules either. In fact when I fork a package, I delete anything git related in it so it is tracked directly from within my repository.

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