looking to tarball local packages for development

[ORESoftware]

I am looking for some advice to this question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50323118/intercept-outgoing-http-requests-to-npmjs-org-etc

I am looking for a locally running server that can tarball local npm packages on my filesystem, so that when I test local package A inside a locally running Docker container, it can pick up package B which is on my local host filesystem.

Normally I would using npm link or similar, but with locally running Docker containers, symlinks beween host and container don't really work with Docker afaik.

[gabrielcsapo]

I think this functionality is necessary, you can theoretically npm pack and publish those to local-npm, have you tried that approach? This section might help with what you are looking for https://github.com/local-npm/local-npm#how-it-works. In the pouch-db instance you could write to it and pretend as if it was replicated from the skimdb, I think your use case is a reason to start looking at what local-npm could evolve into.

I have been contemplating what direction we could move this project into, being more flexible with situations like these and hopefully getting some synergy between this need and the npm folks would be great.