oscklm•6mo ago

Convex.json external packages not installing, pnpm monorepo

So there seems to be a lack of externalPackages to support a monorepo, like ours which uses node-linker=hoisted in a .npmrc The node-linker hoisted flattens and causes all modules to be installed in the root node_modules folder. So when we define externalPackages, in our convex.json like this:

{
  "node": {
    "externalPackages": ["sharp"]
  }
}

{
  "node": {
    "externalPackages": ["sharp"]
  }
}

The external packages doesn't get installed when running convex dev Comparing to a non monorepo project, this works without problems. A bit of a forced workaround, that solves the issue: Manually moving a "sharp" module from the root node_modules, into the packages/backend/node_modules, will solve this issue. But seems like a bit of a forceful workaround. Even though it does work.

3 Replies

oscklmOP•6mo ago

Bump: would love an answer from Convex, on whether this could be fixed in the near future?

Michal Srb•6mo ago

No timeline yet. There's certainly a bunch of things we could improve around monorepos. Can you configure npm to install sharp in the nested node_modules?

oscklmOP•6mo ago

Thanks. We are using PNPM as our package manager. And have tried a handfull of different ways to do exactly that, but none worked unfortunately. Coming back to this in case anyone else stumbles over the same issue. But a fix for us has been defining nohoist option in the workspaces settings. Making sure to remove node_modules folder, clean cache and delete yarn.lock

  "workspaces": {
    "packages": [
      "packages/*",
      "apps/*"
    ],
    "nohoist": [
      "**/sharp"
    ]
  },

  "workspaces": {
    "packages": [
      "packages/*",
      "apps/*"
    ],
    "nohoist": [
      "**/sharp"
    ]
  },

Convex.json external packages not installing, pnpm monorepo

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