Build plugins cannot access peer dependencies in the app

[mitar]

Tested on Meteor 1.6.1.1.

I am observing this with two built plugins:

• postcss:
  • Cannot find module autoprefixer Meteor-Community-Packages/meteor-postcss#35
  • Remove app-module-path-node dependency Meteor-Community-Packages/meteor-postcss#15 (comment)
• vue component
  • https://github.com/meteor-vue/vue-meteor/tree/master/packages/vue-component/plugin

The issue is that these days many build plugins might allow configuration. For example, in postcss case they allow you to specify which plugins you want to operate on your CSS. So the reasonable approach would be that:

• you install plugins you want at app-level
• you configure them to be used

The issue is that plugins often then just try to do require(name_of_plugin). But this fails. The reason why this fails is because plugin seems to be run inside ~/.meteor namespace so resolving walks the tree there and not inside the app.

This is even more problematic because during development, if you have package inside packages in your app things look like working. But then, once published, they break.

[mitar]

Reopen of #9865.

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[mitar]

Unstale.

[JohnAllen]

Very unstale, especially if this is the cause of juliancwirko/meteor-postcss not working (can't get it to work at all after 1-2 hours).

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[mitar]

Still relevant.

[Grubba27]

As this issue has not had any activities in the last months... I will be closing it!
If further information is added, I will be happy to reopen this issue

[zodern]

This is still a problem. standard-minifier-css, zodern:melte and possibly other build plugins have to work around it.