Few questions about setting up the development environment

[Vafa-Andalibi]

Hi,

I'm new to typescript and am trying to add some functionality to some packages in this repo. I tried to to create a node/typescript package and add tonaljs as a dependency and develop my package while modifying the tonaljs. To achieve this, I tried to rely on nodemon so that whenever I make any change on the dependency (@tonaljs), they are automatically propagated to my package.

What I did was:

• Create a new package (my main project)
• Build tonaljs using yarn install followed by yarn build:all
• Use npm link on each folder in tonal/packages/ (I also tried this step on all built files in tonal/node_modules/@tonaljs
• Use npm link <name> to add each package from previous step to my own package
• [at this point the dependency works fine and I can use the library]
• Use nodemon on the main tonaljs folder (NOT the one in my package's node_module folder) to monitor changes (tried this on the tonal/packages folder as well as a specific folder like tonal/packages/intervals).

The problem is that nodemon detects changes, but the output of API doesn't change in my package.

Few questions:

• What am I doing wrong?
• Is there any easier way to do this?
• Why doesn't the main file from package.json exist before the build?
• If I want to create the main file on top of this library and modify the library while developing the main, can I do that right in the tonal folder, or do I have to create another project and add this as a dependency?

Thank you,