chore(build): add directory details to the package.json of all packages #7649
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Specifying the directory as part of the `repository` field in a `package.json` allows third party tools to provide better support when working with monorepos. For example, it allows them to correctly construct a commit diff for a specific package. This format was accepted by npm in npm/rfcs#19.
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Nice! Is this something yarn will support as well? I don't see it mentioned in the RFC (/cc @arcanis). |
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Not sure - might be useful to Yarn, but the main use cases I had in mind when writing were:
Can imagine there are other use cases where knowing where something lives within a monorepo is also useful, though! |
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Yeah, that's the same thing https://yarnpkg.com would do, I'd hope. And yarn's website is open source, so should be possible to PR it 🙂 https://github.com/yarnpkg/website |
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Oh nice! Will PR it 🙂 |
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Specifying the directory as part of the
repositoryfield in apackage.jsonallows npm and third party tools to provide better support when working with monorepos. For example, it allows them to correctly construct a commit diff for a specific package.This format was accepted by npm in npm/rfcs#19.