Local Modules

To save installing PowerShell modules globally, Pode allows you to specify modules in the package.json file. These modules will be downloaded into a ps_modules folder at the root of your server.

Important

Pode will only download modules from registered PowerShell Repositories - such as the PowerShell Gallery. This is only a basic implementation, if you wish to download from other locations, such as GitHub, we'd recommend looking at other tools such as Parcel, PSDepend or PSPM

Package.json

Within your server's package.json file, you can specify a modules and devModules section with a list of modules and their versions to download:

{
    "modules": {
        "eps": "0.5.0"
    },
    "devModules": {
        "pester": "latest"
    }
}

You can also use an expanded format where you can specify custom repositories as well. If you use this format, or the above, and don't specify a repository then the PSGallery is used by default:

{
    "modules": {
        "eps": {
            "version": "0.5.0",
            "repository": "CustomGallery"
        }
    },
    "devModules": {
        "pester": {
            "version": "latest",
            "repository": "PSGallery"
        }
    }
}

The "latest" version will always install the latest version of the module. When installing the modules, if Pode detects a different version is already downloaded then it will be removed.

Pode Install

When you have modules defined within your package.jon file, then calling pode install from the CLI will automatically download any defined modules. Using pode -d install will also install the modules, but will also install the dev-modules.

These modules will be downloaded into a ps_modules directory at the root of your server. For example, using the above package.json and calling pode -d install will create the following directory structure:

server.ps1
package.json
/ps_modules
    /eps
        /0.5.0
    /pester
        /4.6.0

Importing

When the modules have been downloaded, you can import them using the Import-PodeModule function.

Unlike Import-Module, Import-PodeModule will check if some module is within the ps_modules directory first, then it will check the global modules.