adonis cli inside monorepo doesn't work

[dimonnwc3]

I'm trying to use adonis inside monorepo with https://lernajs.io/ and yarn/yarn workspaces

my deps:

"@adonisjs/ace": "^5.0.1",
"@adonisjs/auth": "^3.0.4",
"@adonisjs/bodyparser": "^2.0.2",
"@adonisjs/cli": "^4.0.4",
"@adonisjs/cors": "^1.0.5",
"@adonisjs/fold": "^4.0.7",
"@adonisjs/framework": "^5.0.5",
"@adonisjs/ignitor": "^2.0.6",
"@adonisjs/lucid": "^5.0.3"

folder structure looks so:

.├── packages
│   └── api
│       ├── node_modules
│       ├── app
│       │   ├── Controllers
│       │   │   └── Http
│       │   │       └── HelloWorldController.js
│       │   └── Models
│       │       ├── Hooks
│       │       │   └── User.js
│       │       ├── Token.js
│       │       └── User.js
│       ├── config
│       │   ├── app.js
│       │   ├── auth.js
│       │   ├── bodyParser.js
│       │   ├── cors.js
│       │   └── database.js
│       ├── database
│       │   ├── migrations
│       │   │   ├── 1503250034279_user.js
│       │   │   └── 1503250034280_token.js
│       │   └── factory.js
│       ├── start
│       │   ├── app.js
│       │   ├── kernel.js
│       │   └── routes.js
│       ├── ace
│       ├── package.json
│       └── server.js
├── lerna.json
├── node_modules
├── package.json
└── yarn.lock

here is lerna config

{
  "lerna": "2.9.0",
  "packages": [
    "packages/*"
  ],
  "npmClient": "yarn",
  "useWorkspaces": true,
  "version": "0.0.0"
}

just try to execute adonis --help inside ./packages/api cwd
it throws an error:

Error: Cannot find module '/Users/user/project/packages/api/node_modules/@adonisjs
/ace'

1 Ignitor._registerCommands
  /Users/user/project/node_modules/@adonisjs/ignitor/src/Ignitor/index.js:411

2 Ignitor.fire
  /Users/user/project/node_modules/@adonisjs/ignitor/src/Ignitor/index.js:754

so there is two node_modules folders

1. in project root
2. in package/api folder

as I see cli util tries to resolve node_modules inside packages/api folder, but lerna/yarn workspaces use hoisting (https://github.com/lerna/lerna/#--hoist-glob) for modules and creates symlinks only for .bin

as a short solution, to make it work, I just use postinstall hook and create an symlink manually: cd packages/api/node_modules && ln -s ../../../node_modules/@adonisjs

[RomainLanz]

Hey @dimonnwc3! 👋

Happy to accept a PR if you find a way that doesn't break people that aren't using lerna/yarn.

[dimonnwc3]

fortunately I've just found a nice solution introduced a month ago
https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2018/02/15/nohoist/

by adding this to package.json:

"workspaces": {
    "packages": ["packages/*"],
    "nohoist": ["**/@adonisjs", "**/@adonisjs/**"]
  },

hoisting could be disabled for particular modules