How to manage dependencies with gatsby-dev-cli?

[vadimshvetsov]

Hey, I've already have this question at Stackoverflow and asked this question in gatsby's channel at discord but nobody reacts.

I can't find a good way to work with gatsby-dev-cli and test site. When I'm trying to work with gatsby-transformer-remark there are tons of errors about missing dependencies. My main goal is to get possibility to use id attribute in markdown with paragraph or span and I'm trying to bind remark-bracketed-spans with gatsby-transformer-remark I'd even published gatsby-remark-bracketed-spans to npm but no way to make it works. For further investigation I need to debug gatsby-transformer-remark.

I had a previous issue, but now I'm trying to find out why it doesn't work.

Environment (if relevant)

System:
OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
CPU: x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4850HQ CPU @ 2.30GHz
Shell: 5.3 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node: 8.7.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v8.7.0/bin/node
Yarn: 1.9.4 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v8.7.0/bin/yarn
npm: 6.4.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v8.7.0/bin/npm
Browsers:
Chrome: 69.0.3497.100
Firefox: 57.0.3
Safari: 12.0
npmGlobalPackages:
gatsby-cli: 2.4.1
gatsby-dev-cli: 2.4.1

[kakadiadarpan]

@vadimshvetsov I assume you are trying to make local changes to debug gatsby-transformer-remark as you are using it for your plugin. You can watch this video here for gatsby-dev-cli, that might be of help to you.

[stefanprobst]

gatsby-dev-cli will by default look in your project's package.json for gatsby-* packages. So if you plan to work on gatsby-transformer-remark, make sure you have it installed in your project, before linking your dev version with gatsby-dev.

[vadimshvetsov]

@kakadiadarpan thanks, yes I've watched this video but my case is more complicated. gatsby develop can't find gatsby-tranformer-remark dependencies.
@stefanprobst
My package.json has this:

"gatsby-transformer-remark": "next",

But after the linking there are errors like Missing gray-matter, but it must be inside.

[vadimshvetsov]

Finally, the problem was with remark-bracketed-spans which I had added to gatsby-transformer-remark dependencies and if I want to use it with test site I need to install remark-bracketed-spans inside test site directory also. Thank you for your time