hosiH
Deno•15mo ago
hosi

`deno install` installs workspace members' npm dependencies, but not jsr dependencies?

In a monorepo setup, does 
deno install
 install the dependencies of workspace members?

I couldn't find any mention of this behavior in either the 
deno install
 documentation or the workspace documentation, so I'm unsure if this is the expected behavior.

Consider the following monorepo structure:

.
├── deno.json
└── packages
    ├── bar
    │   └── deno.json
    └── foo
        └── deno.json


The contents of each file are as follows:

// deno.json
{
  "workspaces": ["packages/foo", "packages/bar"],
  "vendor": true,
  "nodeModulesDir": "auto"
}

// packages/foo/deno.json
{
  "imports": {
    "@std/encoding": "jsr:@std/encoding@^1.0.5"
  }
}

// packages/bar/deno.json
{
  "imports": {
    "chalk": "npm:chalk@^5.3.0"
  }
}


When I run 
deno install
 in the root directory, a 
node_modules
 folder is created there, and 
chalk
 is installed, but no 
vendor
 directory is created, and 
@std/encoding
 isn't installed.

Is this the expected behavior? In other words, is it by design that running 
deno install
 in the root directory installs npm dependencies from workspace members but does not install jsr dependencies?
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