Why?

You've worked 8,000 million-bazillion hours on 4 cups of coffee a minute trying to fix some stupid bug. It's 2am. If it's not fixed by morning Australia will cease to be a country.

You've found it. It's in a dependency of a dependency of a dependency. You've gone one too many layers deep. Making a mirror is gonna take too much time so you just edit the code directly.

You can't commit node_modules. Your code's gonna be deleted.

Poof. Gone. Never to be seen again.

But wait.

• Wait
• Wait
• Wait

Hold up.

There's a stupid solution. An amazing, Australia-saving, stupid solution:

$ quickfix push

Quickfix will save your changes to a __quickfix__ folder, and then later you can run quickfix to update your node_modules with your 2am decisions once again.

Boom. Work saved.

Installation

Local (preferred)

$ yarn add --dev quickfix

Add npm-scripts and add quickfix as a postinstall hook in your package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "quickfix": "quickfix",
    "quickfix:push": "quickfix push",
    "postinstall": "quickfix"
  }
}

After making changes in node_modules run the command:

$ yarn quickfix:push

To update changes after installing a workspace using quickfix run:

$ yarn quickfix

Global

$ yarn global add quickfix

Add quickfix as a postinstall hook in your package.json:

{
  "postinstall": "quickfix"
}

After making changes in node_modules run the command:

$ quickfix push

To update changes after installing a workspace using quickfix run:

$ quickfix