Flow-bin checking fails to search parent package.json

[mikelambert]

I have flow-bin installed in a parent package (since I want to keep my versioning in one place).

I have sub-packages, each with their own package.json. Unfortunately, trying to run flow-typed on these packages fails, because it can't find flow-bin:

cd UNCAUGHT ERROR: Error: Failed to find a flow-bin dependency in package.json.
Please install flow-bin: `npm install --save-dev flow-bin`

flow-typed should be smart enough to walk up the directory tree of package.json files looking for flow-bin, instead of checking only the current package.json.

[gantoine]

If you could specify the directory of the package.json where flow-bin in installed, would that be good enough? Kinda like how they did it here: import-js/eslint-plugin-import#685

[mikelambert]

To be clear, you're proposing asking the user to pass commandline args for data the code could figure out itself, right?

But yes, it would work for my purposes. I'm hiding this call behind gulp tasks, so I can just pass extra args, and won't have to remember the syntax to use it.

[gantoine]

Yes, exactly. It's not ideal, but its good enough.