withClerkIOS: ClerkViewFactory.swift not found in pnpm workspaces nested 2+ levels deep

[davidtiede]

Bug report

Description

The withClerkIOS config plugin fails to find ClerkViewFactory.swift when the Expo app is nested 2+ levels deep in a pnpm workspace (e.g. apps/mobile/).

possiblePaths only checks one level up

In app.plugin.js, the possiblePaths array resolves paths relative to config.modRequest.projectRoot:

• ./node_modules/@clerk/expo/ios/ClerkViewFactory.swift
• ../node_modules/@clerk/expo/ios/ClerkViewFactory.swift
• ../packages/expo/ios/ClerkViewFactory.swift

In a standard pnpm workspace monorepo like:

monorepo/
├── node_modules/@clerk/expo/   ← package hoisted here
├── apps/
│   └── mobile/                 ← projectRoot is here
├── pnpm-workspace.yaml
└── package.json

The package lives at ../../node_modules/@clerk/expo/ relative to projectRoot, which none of the possiblePaths entries cover.

Suggested fix

Replace the hardcoded paths with require.resolve to let Node's module resolution handle arbitrary nesting:

const swiftFile = require.resolve('@clerk/expo/ios/ClerkViewFactory.swift');

Or, if you want to keep the possiblePaths approach, walk up the directory tree instead of checking only one level:

let dir = config.modRequest.projectRoot;
while (dir !== path.dirname(dir)) {
  possiblePaths.push(
    path.join(dir, 'node_modules', '@clerk', 'expo', 'ios', 'ClerkViewFactory.swift')
  );
  dir = path.dirname(dir);
}

Workaround

We're using pnpm patch @clerk/expo to add the ../../node_modules/ path manually.

Environment

• @clerk/expo: 3.1.2
• pnpm workspaces with app at apps/mobile/
• Expo SDK 55