Support for Pnpm Workspaces with one single pnpm-lock.yaml file?

[chrisspiegl]

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I started using stale-dep in some of my repositories.

Now one of the projects grew and I am working with a pnpm workspace with one singular pnpm-lock.yaml in the workspace root.

stale-dep does not seem to recognize the pnpm-lock.yaml in the workspace root?

Would this be somethign that's possible to support?

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[sxzz]

Could you please provide a minimum repo?

For pnpm workspace, you can add the scripts into package.json of the root, and it'll check the pnpm-lock.yaml from the root of the project.

[chrisspiegl]

Dear @sxzz , sorry for the long wait time. I had this planned for long but never found the time.

I have now created a reproduction: https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/reproduction-stale-dep-pnpm-workspace-dr2lfj

This shows that when I have a pnpm workspace which calls stale-dep from a sub package (app with and without postinstall in this case) it complains that there is no pnpm-lock.yaml file present.

I have also tried to run the stale-dep -u in the sub package app-with-postinstall upon postinstall but that also does not work and shows the same error.

I hope the reproduction helps figure out what may be going on or if there is something I have to fix on my end.

[chrisspiegl]

Updated the reproduction to show the case a bit better and run on Node version 18.

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/reproduction-stale-dep-pnpm-workspace-dr2lfj (link above is also updated).

Steps to reproduce:

1. open sandbox
2. run pnpm install
3. result: it will show error because the sub directory app-with-postinstall will try to do the postinstall stale-dep -u but that will fail with error no pnpm-lock.yaml.
4. run pnpm lint
5. result: it will print not stale because here the stale-dep -u after install works since pnpm-lock.yaml is present in root of workspace.
6. cd app-with-postinstall
7. run pnpm start
8. error no pnpm-lock.yaml found
9. cd ../app-no-postinstall
10. run pnpm start
11. error no pnpm-lock.yaml found

I hope this helps and is clear to understand.

[sxzz]

This project doesn't support pnpm + workspace now. If anyone can contribute this enhancement, I'd like to merge it happily.