WARNING to all yalc users: your npm and yarn versions matter! (docs might need updating)

[Domiii]

TL;DR

• With npm@8.1.0, yalc does not work properly.
  • Same with npm@8.5.* (see [BUG] ERR! Workspaces not supported for global packages (8.5.0+) npm/cli#4477)
• With npm@8.1.2 it works smooth as butter.

Attempt 1

Steps to repro (after yalc publish):

• yalc add @my-scope/my-package
• npm install
• It complains that it cannot find @my-scope/my-package on the registry: ERROR: ... no matching version found ...
• Do a npm cache clean --force (explained here)
• Still the same....

Attempt 2

This time, reverse the order:

• npm install
• yalc add @my-scope/my-package
• Seems to work!
• npm start
• Now, it complains about missing dependencies of @my-scope/my-package because it evidently did not install it quite right.

Sln

• volta install node@16.13.1 (i.e. upgrade to node@16.13.1 from my previous node@16.13.0)
• NOTE: This also upgrades npm to 8.1.2.
• Try again: It works now!

NOTE: From the npm changelog between 8.1.0 and 8.1.2, I don't see why 8.1.2 works. But I'm glad it does.

Also note that it generally has the same problems with yarn@1, but supposedly works with yarn@2 and yarn@3 (haven't tried that yet).

[jafin]

node 16.13.2
npm 9.4.0
npm ci
error: No matching version found for <yalc package>

revert npm to 8.1.2
npm ci works again.

Other npm versions I tested:

failed

• 8.19.3
• 8.13.0
• 8.8
• 8.5
• 8.4.1
• 8.4

passed

• 8.3.2
• 8.3
• 8.1.2

So perhaps 8.3.2 ... 8.4+ broke something