How can developers install a single package directly from Git/GitHub?

[jmealo]

• Package Name:
  @azure/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter / @microsoft/opentelemetry-exporter-azure-monitor
• Package Version:
  All
• Operating system:
• nodejs

Describe the bug
The versions published to NPM lag behind GitHub. Typically developers will install a particular branch directly from GitHub. Every example of how to install a package from Git/GitHub assumes that package.json is in the root of the repository. However, because the this is a mono-repo, the notation or support for doing such is unclear. If this is possible, outlining it in the README.md of the repo would be helpful.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1.Want to apply the latest break fixes

Expected behavior

1. Deploy from NPM (preferred)
2. Deploy from GitHub (documented fallback)

Discussion of adding this feature to NPM:
npm/npm#2974

[jmealo]

I built @microsoft/opentelemetry-exporter-azure-monitor package from the default branch after cloning and was able to use rush and the included npm scripts to build and pack a .tgz, which upon installing, had a different public interface than the previously published module.

[jeremymeng]

Note that we also publish nightly alpha builds to npm

[jmealo]

@jeremymeng: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@azure/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter Last alpha was published a month ago.

[jeremymeng]

@jmealo you are right. Most likely due to the renaming of the package, we haven't been publishing the package under the new name.

[xirzec]

I'm working on fixing this in #12843 which was blocked on some CI trouble that I believe is now resolved. Putting the package back into @azure should resolve the trouble with nightlies.

[jmealo]

@xirzec: I'm not sure when the alphas are due to be built, but nothing was published last night, so I don't know if this has been resolved. Either way, that release will be unusable for anyone who set their backend role manually as instructed.

[xirzec]

It was published successfully: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@azure/opentelemetry-exporter-azure-monitor