link-monorepos-badly

Link packages from one Yarn Workspaces or Bolt monorepo to another ... sorta badly.

Getting started

Install link-monorepos-badly globally

yarn global add link-monorepos-badly

Run an install of the foreign monorepo and the local monorepo

cd /path/to/the/foreign/monorepo
# If the foreign monorepo is using Yarn Workspaces
yarn
# If the foreign monorepo is using Bolt
bolt
cd /path/to/the/local/monorepo
# If the local monorepo is using Yarn Workspaces
yarn
# If the local monorepo is using Bolt
bolt

Link the packages from the foreign monorepo to the local monorepo

cd /path/to/the/local/monorepo
link-monorepos-badly link /path/to/the/foreign/monorepo

When you're ready to unlink packages, you can unlink the packages and reinstall.

cd /path/to/the/local/monorepo
link-monorepos-badly unlink /path/to/the/foreign/monorepo
# If the local monorepo is using Yarn Workspaces
yarn
# If the local monorepo is using Bolt
bolt

Once you've published new versions of the packages from the foreign monorepo

Terms

local monorepo

The monorepo you're linking packages to (this should be at your current working directory)

foreign monorepo

The monorepo you're linking packages from (this is the path you specify to link-monorepos-badly)

Why is this linking monorepos badly?

It's quite likely that there will be duplicated dependencies which will especially cause problems with peerDependencies. We're not attempting to solve this problem well, this is a temporary solution to the problem of linking monorepos until the Node ecosystem is compatible with Yarn PnP and we can use it to link multiple monorepos together well.