How do you enforce dependent builds during publish? (or how do I solve inconsistent publish success?)

[reconbot]

I've got a monorepo with two packages and one is reliant on the other. There is a build step for each one. I have the build step in the prepublishOnly script.

A -> deps []
B -> deps [A]

B needs the build step for A to run first. When running pnpm -r build this isn't an issue, pnpm will run A before B. However when running pnpm -r publish you get inconsistent behavior (for good reason!)

• When running pnpm -r publish when both packages need to be published pnpm will publish A before B.
• When running pnpm -r publish when only A needs to be published no problem
• When running pnpm -r publish when only B needs to be published A wont get built and the build will fail.

I don't blame pnpm for this. But I am looking for suggestions on a better way to set this up.

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