[FEATURE] Allow for `npm link`ing to local prefix

[jgehrcke]

What I would like to be able to do is to install the bins defined in the package.json to the local prefix.

npm install . does not do that (related: #526).

Installing these bins seems to be usually done via npm link. npm link symlinks these bins to {prefix}/bin/{name}, where {prefix} is the global prefix. Should we add an option like --local, to change this to the local prefix?

Also see #532 (npm-link: clarify usage of global prefix)

[jgehrcke]

Alternatively, what's a good current workaround for

What I would like to be able to do is to install the bins defined in the package.json to the local prefix.

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[cirosantilli]

Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59389027/how-to-interactively-test-the-executable-of-an-npm-node-js-package-during-develo

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