Linking custom addon, which uses ember-fontawesome, in app fails to build.

[teejayhh]

I have the following setup. Ember cli 3.5

• Made an addon (SampleAddon) which uses the font-awesome package.
• Made an app (SampleApp) which also uses the font-awesome package
• followed the addon usage instructions and added font-lib and fontawesome package the the dependency section.
• yarn link (in SampleAddon)
• yarn link 'SampleAddon' (in SampleApp)
• start up the app (SampleApp) server
• 💥

Build Error (broccoli-fontawesome-pack: free-regular-svg-icons)
Cannot find module '@fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons'

Could someone please verify this or has come across this as well.

Best regards Thomas

[teejayhh]

Ok I found the issue, if your app uses
@fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons
and your addon doesn't, then you will get this issue.

[jrjohnson]

@teejayhh thanks for the report. This may be an issue with yarn link. Unlike npm link yarn doens't install new dependencies when it is linked. So adding @fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons do the addon dependencies will only work when that addon is installed into the app with npm add.

To work around this in the past I've pushed the addon branch up to github and then used something like yarn add username/repo#branch-name to install it into my app for testing.

[jnkroeker]

seeing the same issue usingnpm link