Preact-cli: Lerna, Yarn & Workspaces path resolution wrong for `preact` / prerender.js

[tomsiwik]

Do you want to request a _feature_ or report a _bug_?
_bug_

What is the current behaviour?
Because of #803, which was a fix for #795 mono-repo configurations no longer resolves preact correctly and returns:

✖ ERROR Template execution failed: Error: Cannot find module './node_modules/preact'

This is happening when using lerna, yarn and a workspaces configuration.

If the current behaviour is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

Please use the following global packages and pkgmgr to reproduce:

• yarn
• preact-cli
• lerna

Easy shell script:
https://gist.github.com/tomsiwik/901c1acb122c9bb18d513bb348b201ea

What is the expected behaviour?

preact and preact-render-to-string should use common node_modules path either with require('preact') or relative to the module beeing used ${__dirname}/../../../../preact (fragile).
One other solution is regexing for __dirname: const moduleRoot = __dirname.match(/.+(?<=.*node_modules)/gm)[0]

If this is a feature request, what is motivation or use case for changing the behaviour?

Workspaced lerna breaks now what used to work pre-fix.
See change: https://github.com/preactjs/preact-cli/pull/803/files#diff-dc9a93cd49896d6e2f0463ca332bf943L28

Please mention other relevant information.

Please paste the results of preact info here.
preact-cli 2.2.1

[alexjsdev]

I just moved a preact app into my lerna monorepo that's using yarn workspaces and I'm encountering the same exact issue. Is there any workaround or progress on this?

[KeithMcKiernan]

Running into the same issue as this when using preact-cli inside a mono-repo. Is there any progress on this issue?

[tomsiwik]

The only workaround for me was disabling yarn workspaces for lerna.

[kidqueb]

Not ideal, but after install I just copy preact and preact-render-to-string to the packages node_modules. I run a top level prepare command (I actually use ultra-runner) which each package handles in their own specific package.json.

If you have everything in ./packages it'd be something like:

...
"scripts": {
    "prepare": "cp -R ../node_modules/preact ./node_modules && cp -R ../node_modules/preact-render-to-string ./node_modules",
}
...

[JohnnyCrazy]

Small workaround for now, add two packages to your nohoist list in your root package.json:

"workspaces": {
  "packages": ["packages/*"],
  "nohoist": ["**/preact", "**/preact-render-to-string"]
},

But for the long run, a correct package resolution should be the way to go :)