Failed to resolve plugin when using pnpm custom virtual-store-dir

[r34son]

🔎 Search Terms

pnpm virtual-store-dir plugin resolve

🕗 Version & Regression Information

• This changed between versions ______ and _______
• This changed in commit or PR _______
• This is the behavior in every version I tried, and I reviewed the FAQ for entries about _________
• I was unable to test this on prior versions because _______

⏯ Playground Link

No response

💻 Code

https://codesandbox.io/p/devbox/5t3rgv

🙁 Actual behavior

see .vscode/settings.json:

{
    "typescript.tsdk": "node_modules/typescript/lib",
    "typescript.tsserver.log": "terse"
}

and .npmrc:

virtual-store-dir=${HOME}/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store

and tsconfig.json:

...
"plugins": [
  {
    "name": "next"
  }
],

Using workspace version of typescript with custom pnpm virtual-store-dir fails to load plugins

1. Install dependencies
2. Open ts file
3. Press cmd+shift+p
4. type open tsserver log and select command
5. You will find this logs:

Info 13   [07:41:44.241] Enabling plugin next from candidate paths: /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js/../../..
Info 14   [07:41:44.241] Loading next from /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js/../../.. (resolved to /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/node_modules)
Info 15   [07:41:44.256] Failed to load module 'next' from /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/node_modules: Error: Could not resolve JS module 'next' starting at '/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/node_modules'. Looked in: /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/next/package.json, /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/next.js, /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/next.jsx, /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/next/index.js, /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/next/index.jsx, /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/node_modules/next/package.json, /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/node_modules/next.js, /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/node_modules/next.jsx, /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/node_modules/next/index.js, /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/node_modules/next/index.jsx, /root/.cache/node_modules/next/package.json, /root/.cache/node_modules/next.js, /root/.cache/node_modules/next.jsx, /root/.cache/node_modules/next/index.js, /root/.cache/node_modules/next/index.jsx, /root/node_modules/next/package.json, /root/node_modules/next.js, /root/node_modules/next.jsx, /root/node_modules/next/index.js, /root/node_modules/next/index.jsx, /node_modules/next/package.json, /node_modules/next.js, /node_modules/next.jsx, /node_modules/next/index.js, /node_modules/next/index.jsx
    at resolveJSModule (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:44657:11)
    at Object.require (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:8385:30)
    at Function.importServicePluginSync (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:185646:27)
    at _ProjectService.requestEnablePlugin (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:191532:16)
    at ConfiguredProject2.enablePlugin (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:186944:25)
    at ConfiguredProject2.enablePluginsWithOptions (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:187700:14)
    at _ProjectService.loadConfiguredProject (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:189606:13)
    at _ProjectService.reloadConfiguredProject (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:189880:10)
    at ConfiguredProject2.updateGraph (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:187629:29)
    at updateWithTriggerFile (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:188177:11)
    at updateConfiguredProject (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:188185:9)
    at updateProjectFoundUsingFind (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:188120:28)
    at _ProjectService.findCreateOrReloadConfiguredProject (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:190771:62)
    at _ProjectService.tryFindDefaultConfiguredProjectForOpenScriptInfo (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:190806:25)
    at _ProjectService.tryFindDefaultConfiguredProjectAndLoadAncestorsForOpenScriptInfo (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:190964:25)
    at _ProjectService.assignProjectToOpenedScriptInfo (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:190717:27)
    at /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:191270:27
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at _ProjectService.applyChangesInOpenFiles (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:191267:56)
    at updateOpen (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:192499:29)
    at /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:195218:15
    at IpcIOSession.executeWithRequestId (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:195207:14)
    at IpcIOSession.executeCommand (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:195216:29)
    at IpcIOSession.onMessage (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:195264:68)
    at process.<anonymous> (/root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/_tsserver.js:525:14)
    at process.emit (node:events:513:28)
    at emit (node:internal/child_process:946:14)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:84:21)
Info 16   [07:41:44.256] Couldn't find next

The problem is that path to tsserver is resolved to the custom pnpm virtual-store-dir and it is impossible to resolve path to plugin from it.

The path comes from here https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/src/server/project.ts#L2109
Why it does not return node_modules/typescript/lib and instead return /root/.cache/pnpm-virtual-store/typescript@5.7.2/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js/../../..?

🙂 Expected behavior

Plugin starts correctly using pnpm custom virtual-store-dir

Additional information about the issue

No response

[RyanCavanaugh]

We don't have support for pnpm's virtual-store-dir concept. Since tsserver has no idea which package manager you're using, it doesn't have any way to even know which custom package manager semantics to look for or respect/ignore. Plugins need to be resolvable through node_modules.

[r34son]

@RyanCavanaugh Any workarounds to suggest?

[RyanCavanaugh]

IIRC a plugin path can be a relative filename, so you could specify it that way (e.g. ./whatever_path/plugin_name/subdir/index.js). You can also add plugin probe path locations via editor configuration, see microsoft/vscode#45856 for context on that.

[r34son]

IIRC a plugin path can be a relative filename, so you could specify it that way (e.g. ./whatever_path/plugin_name/subdir/index.js). You can also add plugin probe path locations via editor configuration, see microsoft/vscode#45856 for context on that.

Tried it, but it seems not the right solution

[r34son]

IIRC a plugin path can be a relative filename, so you could specify it that way (e.g. ./whatever_path/plugin_name/subdir/index.js).

Nope, see

TypeScript/src/server/editorServices.ts

Lines 5435 to 5442 in 0a1aa6d

	if (
	!pluginConfigEntry.name ||
	isExternalModuleNameRelative(pluginConfigEntry.name) ||
	/[\\/]\.\.?(?:$|[\\/])/.test(pluginConfigEntry.name)
	) {
	this.logger.info(`Skipped loading plugin ${pluginConfigEntry.name || JSON.stringify(pluginConfigEntry)} because only package name is allowed plugin name`);
	return;
	}

[RyanCavanaugh]

pluginPaths should still work, it just needs to be in the correct config.

To advise further I'd probably need to know why you're using a custom module location in the first place; this isn't a very common scenario so there might be other constraints at play.

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[r34son]

pluginPaths should still work, it just needs to be in the correct config.

To advise further I'd probably need to know why you're using a custom module location in the first place; this isn't a very common scenario so there might be other constraints at play.

It`s just how nextjs ts plugin works in pnpm repo https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/config/typescript#ide-plugin