diff --git a/packages/angular/package.json b/packages/angular/package.json
index ee687fda75..db70c35f8e 100644
--- a/packages/angular/package.json
+++ b/packages/angular/package.json
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "build": "npm run clean && npm run compile && npm run clean-generated",
+    "build.link": "node scripts/link-copy.js",
     "clean": "node scripts/clean.js",
     "clean-generated": "node ./scripts/clean-generated.js",
     "compile": "./node_modules/.bin/ngc",
diff --git a/packages/angular/scripts/README.md b/packages/angular/scripts/README.md
index 4caa53d311..a84aa36299 100644
--- a/packages/angular/scripts/README.md
+++ b/packages/angular/scripts/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+# npm link local development
+
+`npm link` doesn't work as expected due to the `devDependency` on `@angular/core`. This is the work around...
+
+    npm run build.link ../ionic-conference-app
+
+When the command above is ran from the `packages/angular` directory, it will build `@ionic/angular` and copy the `dist` directory to the correct location of another local project. In the example above, the end result is that it copies the `dist` directory to `../ionic-conference-app/node_modules/@ionic/angular/dist`. The path given should be relative to the root of this mono repo.
+
+
 # Deploy
 
 1. `npm run prepare.deploy`
diff --git a/packages/angular/scripts/link-copy.js b/packages/angular/scripts/link-copy.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b7fcc359c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/angular/scripts/link-copy.js
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+const fs = require('fs-extra');
+const path = require('path');
+
+
+let prjDir = process.argv[2];
+if (!prjDir) {
+  throw new Error('local path required as last argument to "npm run build.link" command');
+}
+prjDir = path.join(__dirname, '../../../', prjDir);
+const prjIonicAngular = path.join(prjDir, 'node_modules/@ionic/angular');
+
+const ionicAngularDir = path.join(__dirname, '..');
+const ionicAngularDist = path.join(ionicAngularDir, 'dist');
+const ionicAngularPkgJsonPath = path.join(ionicAngularDir, 'package.json');
+const ionicAngularPkgJson = require(ionicAngularPkgJsonPath);
+
+// make sure this local project exists
+fs.emptyDirSync(prjIonicAngular);
+
+ionicAngularPkgJson.files.push('package.json');
+
+ionicAngularPkgJson.files.forEach(f => {
+  const src = path.join(ionicAngularDir, f);
+  const dest = path.join(prjIonicAngular, f);
+
+  console.log('copying:', src, 'to', dest);
+  fs.copySync(src, dest);
+});
+
+const prjReadme = path.join(prjIonicAngular, 'README.md');
+fs.writeFileSync(prjReadme, '@ionic/angular copied from ' + ionicAngularDir);