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16 January, 2017 · Reading time: ~2 minute(s) (283 words) programming javascript reactjs npm

Sometimes the version of an npm package has some functionality you want, but it has issues which break other stuff. What do you do? Pull the repo and build it yourself and shoehorn it in? Let’s see…

For my example, I’ll use the griddle-react package.

I quite like the Griddle component (griddle-react), I’ve posted about it in the past, and use it both at work and in side-projects at home whenever tabular data needs to be displayed as it’s quick and simple. However, I’ve had it occur twice where a bug is present in the current npm package version, but since the package was pushed to npm, the bug has been fixed in the Github repository. How do I get this version into my project!?

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