[DOCS] How to specify a <package-spec> for the `prepare` script to match `publish`.

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Description of Problem

The npm publish command allows for a <package-spec> parameter so that you could, for example npm publish ./dist.

This works fine for directly publishing to npm: npm install <pkg> installs the dist folder as the package into your node_modules.

On the other hand, if you use npm install github:me/repo, it isn't clear how to let npm know that the ./dist folder is what should be installed after the prepare script is run.

Potential Solution

I don't know. The only thing I can think of is maybe using workspace, but it isn't clear how that would interact when the ./dist package has the same name as the root source package.

Docs URL

docs/content/commands/npm-install.md