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Both yarn, npm and pnpm support workspaces, but in a slight different way.

Npm's adoption of workspaces is quite new, and we were likely using an npm version that were not using them. We now are.

This repo is a basic monorepo set with pnpm. What we want to do is to install eveything in the nhost directory without taking into account the rest of the repo:

cd nhost
npm i

Output:

npm ERR! code EUNSUPPORTEDPROTOCOL
npm ERR! Unsupported URL Type "workspace:": workspace:*

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     ~/.npm/_logs/2022-12-09T17_15_24_731Z-debug-0.log

Npm is resolving the parent package.json, and tries to install the entire workspace. But in the unrelated package, a dependency is using the pnpm syntax: "workspace:*". Therefore it fails.

To solve it:

cd nhost
npm i --no-workspaces