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yarn plug and play and optional peerDependencies #3059

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kapouer opened this issue Feb 19, 2019 · 2 comments · Fixed by #3081
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yarn plug and play and optional peerDependencies #3059

kapouer opened this issue Feb 19, 2019 · 2 comments · Fixed by #3081

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@kapouer
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kapouer commented Feb 19, 2019

Hi,

yarn --pnp is a really interesting thing to speedup module loading:
https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/pnp
however it needs all modules to declare what they depend on to be able to work properly.

In the case of modules like knex, where one of the dependencies is declared by a parent module, the plug and play system fails (e.g. knex won't find pg).
pg, mysql2, sqlite3 (...) should be in peerDependencies, but optional.

This is precisely what yarn's peerDependenciesMeta field do:
yarnpkg/yarn@011a634

However i suppose it needs to be available in npm too before it can be added to knex's package.json.

Meanwhile, a simple solution would be to be able to pass knex the driver module itself, like

var pg = require('knex')({
  client: 'pg',
  driver: require('pg'),
  connection: process.env.PG_CONNECTION_STRING,
  searchPath: ['knex', 'public'],
});
@elhigu
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elhigu commented Mar 3, 2019

That is interesting... If it can be setup to package.json without breaking npm functionality, I don't see why it couldn't be added. I don't think that just having peerDependenciesMeta attribute there will break anything.

However I still didn't understand how that should work in a way that only needed DB driver package would be included... could you elaborate it more how knex's package.json and parent projects package.json should look in that case?

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Released in 0.20.1

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