men232 / pnpm-better-pack

A CLI to extract pnpm package from workspace with local dependencies

A CLI to extract pnpm package from workspace with local dependencies

Features

• Hard copying the codebase without symlinks.
• Support npm install format.
• Exclude packages.

Usage

# pnpm
cd <workspace root>
pnpm dlx pnpm-better-pack @app/foo ./out

# npm
cd <workspace root>
npx pnpm-better-pack @app/foo ./out

Options

The command line utility has several options.

Usage: pnpm-better-pack [options] <package name> <target directory>

Extract a package from workspace with local dependencies

Arguments:
  package name          The name of the package to extract from workspace
  target directory      Target path where the package will be extracted

Options:
  -V, --version         output the version number
  --prod, -P            Packages in `devDependencies` won't be installed (default: false)
  --dev, -D             Only `devDependencies` are installed (default: false)
  --out-local <folder>  A place where workspace dependencies be located (default: "packages")
  --no-optional         `optionalDependencies` are not installed
  --exclude <items>     Comma separated package name list (default: "")
  -h, --help            display help for command

pnpm-better-pack's Issues

Not copying symlinks correctly

On MacOS, we're using a native node module that outputs a framework to the dist directory. When this package runs, the copy step does not appear to be be copying the symlinks over. This is causing our signing process for our Electron app to fail.

To reproduce, add an Xcode .framework to a node package and run pnpm-better-pack.