'How to use npm package built from a sub folder of a forked repo

I have forked a project from github (RocketChat) which have this dependency (package.json):

    "dependencies": {
     .................
    "@rocket.chat/fuselage": "0.32.0",
    ..............

As business required, I have to make several changes in @rocket.chat/fuselage, which is a package built from a sub folder of another github repo (https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Fuselage/tree/develop/packages/fuselage)

Note: @rocket.chat/fuselage is a part of the monorepo above, built by "yarn build" at root folder into root/packages/fuselage/dist.

So I have forked Rocket.Chat.Fuselage as well. But I have been struggling for days to make my forked Rocketchat point to the customized @rocket.chat/fuselage. We need to make something like:

    "dependencies": {
     .................
    "@rocket.chat/fuselage": "0.32.0-ourCompanyName",
    ..............

and build "@rocket.chat/fuselage": "0.32.0-ourCompanyName" only once to be used by other team members (including production). If not possible, building it on each dev machine and prod is also acceptable.

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Solution 1:[1]

Solution 1 :We decided to use "npm pack"

Step 1: go to fuselage , build it then run

npm pack

which will generate a tgz file

Step 2: go back to main project. Run

npm install "pathTotgzFileInstep1"

this will also update dependencies in package.json file

Solution 2: change the package name, create an npm account and publish it to npm registry. More complicated than solution 1 at first but work better in longterm

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