Use forked NPM package as drop in replacement using the same name in devDependencies

Question

I need to update the Electron version used in my project. Currently the package "electron-prebuilt-compile" is what pulls in Electron. "electron-prebuilt-compile" is currently stuck at Electron version 8. I have found a few forks of "electron-prebuilt-compile" and attempted to use that but unfortunately I get an error saying I need an exact version and not a range.

Is there a way to alias a package in my package.json file? So I can have "electron-prebuilt-compile": "8.2.0" but it instead uses "@felixrieseberg/electron-prebuilt-compile": "9.4.4" (for example).

Answer 1

EDIT: Actually it looks like a better answer already exists here

npm i -D electron-prebuilt-compile@npm:@felixrieseberg/electron-prebuilt-compile

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You can point directly to the tarball of the forked package while still using the original name by editing package.json like this

"devDependencies": {
  "electron-prebuilt-compile": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@felixrieseberg/electron-prebuilt-compile/-/electron-prebuilt-compile-9.4.4.tgz"
}