How to properly setup symlinked library without ejecting?

I have 2 projects both created with create-react-app, both not ejected

one project, components-library is an app that only export components the other project, awesome-app is a single page app that makes use of components-library components

the scaffolding is like so:

components-library
   |
   ---- src
   |    |
   |    ---- lib
   |         |
   |         |--- components
   |         |         |
   |         |         [...]
   |         |         ---- Component.jsx
   |         ---- index.js //this import/export all the components
   --- package.json
awesome-app
   |
   ---- src
   |     |
   |     |---- index.js //this exposes the SPA
   |     ----- App.jsx //classic setup of react SPA
   --- package.json

awesome-app is npm linked with npm link ../components-library

Is there a way to get the hotreaload to properly detects changes from awesome-app in the components-library/src/lib/**/* folder?

I tried to setup chokidar to observe the changes and launch a re-build script on the components-library but if chockidars rebuilds the components-library while awesome-app is running (with npm start) awesome-app process get stuck and becomes unkillable (running from windows ubuntu subsystem bash, only way to kill the process is a complete computer reboot)

my issue looks somewhat related to this:

https://github.com/gaearon/react-hot-loader/issues/211

but i could not figure a solution yet…

[iansu]

Importing uncompiled code from other packages in a monorepo is not currently supported by Create React App.

[adeelibr]

When you symlink, it actively watches changes & should update (reload) the code.

My guess is instead of doing

awesome-app is npm linked with npm link …/components-library

Do this

Go in component-library folder in terminal & type npm link

and then go in your awesome-app folder in terminal & type npm link NAME_OF_PACKAGE

Here NAME_OF_PACKAGE is the package.name in package.json file in your component-library repo.

Maybe this will help https://stackoverflow.com/a/20888757/4921319