I have an Angular app (v13.3.10) and I'm using the ngx-markdown package as a dependency. I'm finding a lot of bugs in this package. To fix this, I'm trying to edit it locally and view changes in-browser when running ng serve. But webpack seems to always take an unedited version of the source files in this package. (this package unfortunately doesn't have a dist folder).
Researching this, I tried both using patch-package (setting a postinstall script) as well as disabling angular CLI's build cache. But no matter what, Webpack stays firm and doesn't apply local changes on ng serve.
Why does webpack not let me change source files to view in localhost? What else can I do from here?
Going to answer my own question here. The issue is that the ngx-markdown package is an Angular library. Angular has webpack configured such that no libraries are allowed to be edited. The best you can do is either: