Error: Cannot find module 'multicodec/src/base-table.json' - yarn

[FrozenKiwi]

the way modules are hoisted & imported can mean that cids ends up referencing the wrong version multicodec.

My modules are as below

docid
CN/docid@0.4.6
  - multicodec@2.0.0
cids@1.0.2
multicodec@2.1.0

cids@1.0.2 depends on multicodec "^2.0.1". The issue is that when cids requires multicodec, it gets v2.1.0. In this version, base-table.js exists but not base-table.json. This is confirmed by yarn.lock:

multicodec@^2.0.0, multicodec@^2.0.1, multicodec@^2.1.0:
  version "2.1.0"

docid (I assume) specifies multicode explicitly despite not using it anywhere because tries to force CIDS to import the correct version.

js-ceramic/packages/docid/package.json

Line 30 in 8cf3a0b

"multicodec": "2.0.0",

However, because cids has been hoisted it has escaped the scope of the docid/node_modules and does not reference the intended version.

Upgrading cids to a more recent version will fix this issue.

[FrozenKiwi]

This is the same as previously closed issue: #999

The workaround probably works because it puts an incompatible version of muticodec at the root of the node_modules, forcing cids to resolve it's own (presumably compatible) version in it's own node_modules. However, this isn't an ideal workaround.