Add a local workspace package as a dependency of another workspace in a monorepo

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Documented steps

  1. From the monorepo root, run npm install <workspace-name> -w <consumer-workspace> to add workspace 'b' as a dependency of workspace 'a'
  2. npm detects <workspace-name> is a workspace and symlinks it automatically instead of fetching from the registry
  3. The consumer's package.json gains an entry like "b": "^1.0.0" in dependencies (version from the workspace's package.json)
  4. Run npm ls <consumer-workspace> to confirm the linkage resolves to the local folder
  5. Consume it in code by the declared package.json name via Node module resolution

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