I am writing down some notes so that if I come back to this, I can remember how I have done what I have done.
This is mainly for running the tests, but I'll stick some other stuff in here too.
Firstly, to compile the project, you'll need to use yarn (npm should work fine too).
Just do something like npm install -g yarn. (This cannot be installed in the same node_modules of the project).
Then you simply go into the root directory and run yarn. (project dependencies)
Then you navigate into lib_tests/libs/ and run yarn again. (testing library dependencies)
Then some symlink magic needs to happen.
For every library that you want to test, you need to symlink /lib_tests/libs/node_modules to /lib_tests/tests/ansicolors/node_modules (example)
ln -s ../../libs/node_modules/ansicolors node_modules/
The final thing that needs doing is to navigate to /lib_tests/libs/node_modules and symlink /build to the name blame.
At this point the madness may stop.
Note: All directories are relative to the root of the repository.
The below requirements are needed if you want to pull all the repos again. I have bundled them all and put them here: (insert link) where you can download them in an archived format.
apt install ruby-dev
gem install --user json # add this to the path.