location of installed package

[btcwid]

I joined a project that in the meantime lost the dev that set things up.

Working in a monorepo, one package ("client") is depending on another package also from the monorepo ("dep"). Packages scoped by "org-scope".

New devs join, working in "client", have a package.json with "dep" in the usual dependencies object location.

pnpm i installs it OK, , but pnpm view gives @org-scope/dep@latest' is not in the npm registry.

Nothing interesting AFAICT in project or user .npmrc

Trying to understand, where is pnpm getting this package from, what commands can help?

[zkochan]

Is @org-scope/dep a private package? Do you want to search for @org-scope/dep in the monorepo?

[btcwid]

Thank you for those prompts.

Yes, it has "private": true in package.json.

Searching ...

@org-scope/dep shows up in:
pnpm-lock.yaml of client parent dir, with link:<relpath-to-dep>
in dependencies object of package.json of client
as name, in package.json of dep
& other less interesting-seeming places

-> so, earlier team member did pnpm link <relpath-to-dep> in root?

side note:
I thought the view subcommand would output provenance regardless of source - in this case, it would show the link info from the lockfile - but I don't know where I got that idea. Also I see that this command is not actually supported in pnpm, so, I'm making up stuff on top of making up stuff.

[zkochan]

you can try pnpm ls -r <depname>