Multi-app Monorepo Followup

[mysterycommand]

Bringing this over from npm/feedback#582 per @MylesBorins direction (also, hi Myles!)

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Following up on #463 and #470 (and the meeting notes here) … I'm a little unclear on the status of what's left to do here. I'm willing to help if I can!

There were a few action items created as part of that meeting:

Actions:

• land npm-packlist in cli (@wraithgar)
• RFC about running prepare scripts for linked bundled deps
• RFC about workspace layout (@ljharb)

Taking the second action item first, is that something I should take on? I think it might be blocked by the first item on the list because right now the suggested workaround (below) isn't working with npm@8 or npm@7 … yet?

{
  "name": "lambda-a",
  "dependencies": {
    "b": "file:../b"
  },
  "bundleDependencies": [
    "b"
  ],
  "scripts": {
    "prepare": "cd ../b; npm run prepare"
  }
}

Is there any eta on landing npm-packlist in the cli? I've created a demo repo here to test out the workaround and see if I could come up with a "hacky" implementation of running prepare scripts on local bundled deps, but currently when I run npm pack --dry-run --json -w apps/app-a in that repo, I get this output:

[
  {
    "id": "@multi-app-monorepo/app-a@1.0.0",
    "name": "@multi-app-monorepo/app-a",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "size": 500,
    "unpackedSize": 838,
    "shasum": "4bd38bbbcc89e412082d48ef45849e53a3512f92",
    "integrity": "sha512-+sHhXSMqS8BCZjuirZwAs2rgs1UU2O+mr+nGlBYSQadIWV9nSNA8NAhO6QW2IUYS6XM5TT5+uSQ2k03Y7+FaWg==",
    "filename": "@multi-app-monorepo/app-a-1.0.0.tgz",
    "files": [
      {
        "path": "index.js",
        "size": 133,
        "mode": 420
      },
      {
        "path": "package.json",
        "size": 705,
        "mode": 420
      }
    ],
    "entryCount": 2,
    "bundled": []
  }
]

I'd expect the package.json and index.js from pkgs/pkg-c to show up in the packed output of app-a (maybe under that "bundled" key?) … indeed I believe this is the point of the npm-packlist action item. Just wanting to make sure I'm not missing something.

cc/ @isaacs who offered the workaround at the meeting and might have some ideas? 🤞

[mysterycommand]

I see that npm-packlist@3.0.0 landed in npm@8.1.0, but my in my repro repo (mysterycommand/multi-app-monorepo) I get the same result running either of npm pack -w apps/app-a from the root, or simply npm pack after cd apps/app-a

That is:

npm notice 
npm notice 📦  @multi-app-monorepo/app-a@1.0.0
npm notice === Tarball Contents === 
npm notice 133B index.js    
npm notice 705B package.json
npm notice === Tarball Details === 
npm notice name:          @multi-app-monorepo/app-a               
npm notice version:       1.0.0                                   
npm notice filename:      @multi-app-monorepo/app-a-1.0.0.tgz     
npm notice package size:  500 B                                   
npm notice unpacked size: 838 B                                   
npm notice shasum:        4bd38bbbcc89e412082d48ef45849e53a3512f92
npm notice integrity:     sha512-+sHhXSMqS8BCZ[...]SQ2k03Y7+FaWg==
npm notice total files:   2                                       
npm notice 
multi-app-monorepo-app-a-1.0.0.tgz

That last line (multi-app-monorepo-app-a-1.0.0.tgz) appears to be the result of app a's prepare script which is cd ../../pkgs/pkg-c ; npm run prepare where pkg c's prepare script is echo ${npm_package_name} … which I guess now that I type it out makes sense. That environment variable must be set for the script of the "current" package, not the package in the current working directory.