Proper way to reference vscode-docker-extensibility package in vscode-containers project

[Soap1196]

Hey sorry to bother you all, but i am working on an update to provide podman specific pod feature to this vscode extention, I'm a little new to node.js development with vscode extensions and wanted to know how you all typically get the vscode-containers project to reference the dependency vscode-docker-extensibility in package.json? I've done both refencing its location as a normal file
"dependencies": {
"@microsoft/vscode-container-client": "file:../vscode-docker-extensibility/packages/vscode-container-client"
}

and by using npm link but it still won't refenerce any code changes i've made after running npm install and npm: run build task.

any tips would be appreciated

[bwateratmsft]

Generally what we do is build the package (npm run build && npm run package), then do npm install /path/to/the/tgz to install it. There's probably a way to make npm link work but I haven't actually tried it.