Testing Unpublished Library Version

You may want to test changes made to the library in an app locally. This becomes useful to validate a fix or root cause an issue occuring only in a specific app or context. Or someone may want to demo a cool new feature in real app context before the changes are tested and published. There are a few ways to test unpublished versions:

• If the library and app are being developed on the same devbox, follow https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/wiki/Using-local-(unpublished)-version-of-the-lib-with-a-local-React-app

• Otherwise, create a private package of the library and replace the published version with it in the app. Follow below steps:

1. Checkout a codespace. Go to https://github.com/codespaces/new, select the microsoft\fluentui repo and your working branch.
2. Go to the packages\react-charting path which contains the local changes.
3. Run yarn build
4. Run yarn pack. This will generate a tgz file (for egfluentui-react-charting-v5.16.13.tgz).
5. Copy the tgz file to the app devbox.
6. Go to the app and run npm install <path to tgz file> or yarn install <path to tgz file> depending upon the package manager of your app.
7. Install any additional package dependencies that are introduced.