# Development

In most cases you want to use the CS NPM hosted packages for your dashboard. If you want to extend/change the CS library yourself, you can work with them locally using the yarn link feature. After checking out the csNext code, use the following commands to setup a development environment

# install all dependencies and create links 
yarn

# compile typescript, create bundles, watch for changes
yarn dev

After setting up the development environment for csNext you can now setup the links for your dashboard

# create link to local csNext libraries
yarn cs-dev

If you want to return to the NPM packages, you can unlink the local depencies using:

# unlink local csNext libraries
yarn cs-unlink