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Brad Wood

January 03, 2018

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The package link and package unlink commands are fairly new to CommandBox and here's a brief screencast that shows you a real life use case for them.  The package link command will create a symlink from your current directory into your CommandBox's system modules folder and reload your shell. 

This is perfect to do some quick on-the-fly testing of a module that you're in the middle of developing without requiring you to publish your module or do a full installation every time you make a chance.  Just link the module in and you can test live changes as you edit the code.

Even though I didn't show it in the video, you can also use the link command to link your current working directory to a specific target location like a ColdBox or ContentBox app.  This also lets you do quick and easy testing of modules inside of a web application as well.

Here's the screencast:

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