Using Quasar + Capacitor inside a pnpm monorepo

[danliyev]

I'm building a pnpm monorepo where one of the apps is a Quasar project with Capacitor mode. The structure looks like this:

/
├── apps/
│   ├── core/
│   └── web/ # Quasar App
│       └── src-capacitor/
├── packages/
└── pnpm-workspace.yaml

The issue is that src-capacitor has its own package.json, but since it's not in the workspace, its dependencies aren't installed on pnpm install. How do you handle this setup? Is there a recommended way to integrate src-capacitor into a monorepo, or do most teams just install its dependencies separately?

[stefanvanherwijnen]

Have you tried adding it to packages in pnpm-workspace.yaml?

[danliyev]

It works actually

I noticed something interesting: when running quasar dev -m capacitor -T android via pnpm -F "@example.com/web" and Quasar prompts to select an external IP, keyboard navigation (arrow keys + enter) doesn't work in the interactive prompt. The same command works correctly when:

• Filtering by path instead: pnpm -F "./apps/web" run dev:android
• Running quasar dev -m capacitor -T android directly from the apps/web directory
• Renaming src-capacitor/package.json#name to anything other than @example.com/web: navigation works, but only once (Quasar CLI overwrites the name field back to @example.com/web)

It seems that pnpm's filter-by-name somehow breaks terminal interactivity in Quasar's prompts.