This package re-establishes symlinks after npm i has run. This shortcoming of npm is a known issue that the npm team has been slow to fix, so here is a package to do it.
% npm install -g npm-relinkInitialize from your project root:
% npm i -D npm-relink
% npm-relink init
% echo ".npm-relink.json" >> .gitignoreAdd a postinstall script to package.json:
"scripts": {
"postinstall": "npm-relink"
}Any time you run npm install, npm-relink should run afterward. If it doesn't, just run npm i again.
When you add a new link using npm link, run npm-relink init afterward to capture changes.
I wish there were a way to do a post hook for dependency installation via npm install <package>. Something like depinstall ticket opened here