Building against develop branch?

[bbimber]

Hello,

We have a complex project that depends on jbrowse as an npm dependency. JBrowse is a rapidly evolving project, and I'm trying to work through how to better manage jbrowse version changes. Because some of the time we might also develop a patch to JBrowse, being able to build our code against a jbrowse fork would be convenient too.

Do you know if it is possible for our package.json to point directly to the develop branch of JBrowse on github? In theory package.json support git+XXXX syntax; however, I'm not sure about subfolders in a monorepo. We can give this a try, but I thought I'd check if this has already been tried from your group.

The point of this idea is that we'd have a branch of our project that always builds off JBrowse's main branch and runs our selenium tests. This should hopefully proactively identify breaks or changes.

Thanks.