Parcel: Recursive installation while aliasing vue

[sadick254]

🐛 bug report
While trying to alias vue to use the full build instead of the runtime build only parcel keeps on installing vue and never stops.

.babelrc

{
  "presets": ["env"]
}

package.json

"name": "vue-reproduce",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "license": "MIT",
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "parcel index.html"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "parcel-bundler": "^1.7.1"
  },
  "alias": {
    "vue": "vue/dist/vue.common.js"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "vue": "^2.5.16"
  }

🤔 Expected Behavior

The alias should reference the already installed vue instead of trying to install a new copy

😯 Current Behavior

The installation of vue is recursive and never completes.

| Software | Version(s) |
| ---------------- | ---------- |
| Parcel |1.7.1
| Node |v9.8.0
| npm/Yarn |1.5.1
| Operating System | Windows 10

[DeMoorJasper]

If it's a folder it should be ./vue/dist/vue.common.js, otherwise it should work if it's an installed npm module.
If it's the latter than it's probably an auto-install bug.

cc @davidnagli

[sadick254]

It is an npm installed module

[DeMoorJasper]

You can currently work around it by using the following cli flag: --no-autoinstall

[dakshshah96]

@sadick254 The workaround of --no-autoinstall by @DeMoorJasper prevents the recursive installation but now I get a new error: Cannot resolve dependency 'vue' in my main.js file. Any ideas?

[DeMoorJasper]

@dakshshah96 i’m not sure but it appears to be a bug with the resolver, more specifically with the aliases when used with node_module/...

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[sadick254]

The way I work around the recursive install currently is pointing the alias to the node_modules that way I dont have to disable the autoinstall feature

"alias": {
    "vue": "./node_modules/vue/dist/vue.common.js"
  }

[dakshshah96]

@sadick254 Thanks for the tip!

Now my build succeeds even with autoinstall on but I get the following error in my console:

[Vue warn]: Failed to mount component: template or render function not defined.

found in

---> <Anonymous>
       <Adminapp>
         <Root>
warn @ vue.common.js:593

[DeMoorJasper]

Should be fixed (at least the install part)