Vitest workspaces in a monorepo doesn't work.

[zfeher]

Environment

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• Operating System: Windows_NT
• Node Version: v22.13.1
• Nuxt Version: 3.17.4
• CLI Version: 3.25.1
• Nitro Version: 2.11.12
• Package Manager: npm@11.4.1
• Builder: -
• User Config: -
• Runtime Modules: -
• Build Modules: -

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Reproduction

repo - runs when checked out locally (npm i && npm t)
stackblitz - doesn't run for some reason, maybe something related to the stackblitz template provided by this issue creation tool.

Describe the bug

When we are in a monorepo with multiple packages (regulars, nuxt layers) and we want to run tests from root the nuxt layer package tests are failing because nuxt features doesn't work (no auto import, no layer aliases, ...).

At root level we have a plain vitest config using defineConfig and setting workspace option. This correctly picks up individual package vitest.config.ts files. Nuxt layer packages use defineVitestProject.

Running npm t in the actual nuxt layer packages everything works as it should (nuxt features are working).

It is also interesting that we had to install nuxt at root level, but maybe that is fine.

Another interesting thing we noticed that each nuxt layer package runs test from all layers which we don't want so added exlude patterns in those vitest configs.

Additional context

No response

Logs

[SmootherSpike]

Hello, regarding the issue that you had to add nuxt to the root package.json, we managed to avoid that by putting shamefully-hoist=true to the .npmrc in the root folder, i think that's an issue in pnpm.

For the main issue here, we also have a similar setup and also running tests from the other layer/package as well. Looking forward for help here :)

[SmootherSpike]

Another workaround we are using is to set the dir in the test instead of the exclude you did ->

export default defineVitestConfig({
....
test: {
   dir: fileURLToPath(new URL('./', import.meta.url)))),
....

but as you adressed, still not happy :)

[Corvince]

What helped to not have to install nuxt in the root workspace was setting test.environmentOptions.nuxt.rootDir like so

await defineVitestProject({
    test: {
        name: 'nuxt',
        environment: 'nuxt',
        environmentOptions: {
            nuxt: {
                rootDir: fileURLToPath(new URL('nuxt/dir', import.meta.url)),
            },
        },
    },
}),