Adding npm Package from GitHub

[ben-laird]

Hello!

I'm very excited for the release of Deno 2, and I've been looking forward to using the ECMAScript Signals proposal package in Deno to get a feel for the proposal's concepts. Regrettably, I don't know if the package itself is published to npm, so I'd like to reference it via GitHub.

My question is how does one add, install, or otherwise reference an npm package using a GitHub URL?

I know there are other issues that discuss something similar, namely #5543 and #24977 (as well as this issue about adding modules from branches), but this is a bit different considering that Deno now has full Node & npm support.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

[PaulRBerg]

I have the same question and I really need this. I can't use Deno without this feature.

With Bun and Node.js, I can install GitHub-based dependencies like so:

"@sablier/devkit": "github:sablier-labs/devkit#main"

Where #main is the main branch.

[johngeorgewright]

I got around this using esm.sh. For example:

import 'https://esm.sh/gh/proposal-signals/signal-polyfill'