NPM alias node-postgres to node-postgres-pure

Question

I'm building a nodejs application that needs to run on a Windows server. I've managed to get almost everything working, but I've ran into a problem with the postgresql driver. BrianC has a pure javascript implementation of the node-postgres that I would like to use to avoid having to build the postgres driver.

Is there a way for me to alias node-postgres(npm:pg) to node-postgres-pure(npm:pg.js) so that any dependent package that tries to install and resolve pg will install and resolve pg.js instead?

Thanks

Answer 1

Take a look at node-pg-pure-alias.

It's a bit of a hack, but the idea is to get a package that calls itself 'pg' installed into your node_modules folder. Then, that 'pg' library can export the "real" library.

See #it's not in npm! if you're concerned about depending on a package that's not in the official npm repository.

Disclaimer: I created node-pg-pure-alias. (All ten lines of the package.json, that is.)