Do yarn workspaces work with npm, too?

Question

I checked out a repo which uses yarn instead of npm as build tool.

in the package.json, it defines workspaces to deal with multiple sub-projects:

{   "workspaces": [     "packages/*"   ],   "dependencies": [],   "devDependencies": [     // long list   ] } 

As a result, the root package.json does not contain any runtime dependency. Just the packages/*/package.json contain those.

To compile (and start in dev mode) I do:

yarn install yarn start 

I have found no documentation, that workspaces is also recognized and correctly used by npm.

Is there a way to make it work with npm, too?

Answer 1

Now that npm v7.0.0 is out, npm supports workspaces. You can manage multiple packages from within a singular top-level, root package. See more at https://github.blog/2020-10-13-presenting-v7-0-0-of-the-npm-cli/

Your workflows will not get npm v7.0.0 by default unless you install it using npm install -g npm@7.