Ability to use pnpm (or yarn)

[archiewood]

It would be useful if evidence was compatible with other package managers, in particular pnpm which would be helpful for maintaining monorepos.

encountered this issue while looking into #1205

suspect this is to do with shenanigans in the hidden ./evidence/template folder and or the fact that we explicitly call npx in the cli.js

pnpm

pnpm i
pnpm run dev

result

> my-evidence-project@0.0.1 dev /Users/archie/Projects/test123
> evidence dev --open /

sh: vite: command not found

yarn

yarn
yarn run dev

result

yarn run v1.22.19
warning package.json: No license field
warning ../package.json: No license field
$ evidence dev --open /
failed to load config from /Users/archie/Projects/test123/.evidence/template/vite.config.js
error when starting dev server:
Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package '@sveltejs/kit' imported from /Users/archie/Projects/test123/.evidence/template/vite.config.js.timestamp-1695358831162-d0d042e2ff13e.mjs
    at new NodeError (node:internal/errors:405:5)
    at packageResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:780:9)
    at moduleResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:829:20)
    at defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:1034:11)
    at ModuleLoader.defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:375:12)
    at ModuleLoader.resolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:344:25)
    at ModuleLoader.getModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:220:38)
    at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:85:39)
    at link (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:84:36)
✨  Done in 1.23s.

[csjh]

https://pnpm.io/npmrc#shamefully-hoist fixes for pnpm, unsure for yarn - yarn install --flat does some of the work, but I can't figure out how to make it install peers

[archiewood]

@csjh that's cool!

I do wonder though if we are architecting wrong / misconfiguring something though. Shouldn't pnpm "just work".

Is there something fundamentally different about evidence, vs let's say SvelteKit that means we need to do this hoisting?

I also run into a similar kind of dependency hell when trying to use stackblitz (which uses turborepo), which is what makes me think this

[csjh]

Yeah, we abuse peer deps a bit to minimize the amount of user package.json entries

It might be possible to do a lot of re-exporting from the @evidence-dev/evidence package to fix this

[archiewood]

See #1205

[ItsMeBrianD]

Just as a note; npx shouldn't impact things as far as I know, I've been using it in our monorepo for some time to execute commands. pnpx seems to work differently and doesn't use the packages installed in the project in my experience.