What's the minimum I have to do to propagate changes from a node.js file: dependency?

Question

I have a project structure like this:

main depends on file:../lib1 which depends on file:../common

main depends on file:../lib2 which depends on file:../common

If I modify the common project, what do I need to do to propagate those changes to all projects that depend on it? From the main project, I will be running a package.json bin file from lib1 or lib2.

I can never figure out the foolproof way of propagating my changes in this scenario. Sometimes it doesn't seem like I have to make any changes at all. Other times, it seems like I have to manually delete my node_modules directory (or maybe the node_modules/.bin directory; it's been a while), especially when I make a change in the bin files mentioned in the dependency's package.json. I'm on Windows 10, which may have something to do with this.