Easier way to load package I'm developing?

Hi, new to Julia.

I have this package I want to develop which for the sake of example we’ll call myPkg. It’s located in ~/.julia/dev/myPkg and I’ve used PkgTemplates.jl to set up properly.

I’m using Juno through Atom to run my Julia code. When I start up the REPL there I verify that I’m in the correct path:

julia> pwd()
"~/.julia/dev.myPkg"

but when I attempt to load my module from the REPL, I get the following error:

julia> using myPkg
ERROR: ArgumentError: Package myPkg not found in current path:
- Run `import Pkg; Pkg.add("myPkg")` to install the myPkg package.

Now I have found a workaround to this by updating LOAD_PATH:

julia> push!(LOAD_PATH, pwd())
4-element Array{String,1}:
 "@"
 "@v#.#"
 "@stdlib"
 "~/.julia/dev/myPkg"

And after doing this I’m able to load myPkg. My question is, why wasn’t this possible for me before when I was already in the correct directory? At face value it’s a minor problem but I have the impression I’m misunderstanding fundamental.

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