npm workspaces support for electron-forge

bundler.js

// based on https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-forge/issues/2306#issuecomment-1034882039
'use strict';

/**
 * @typedef {{
 *   new (options: { path: string }): {
 *     loadActual(): Promise<Node>
 *   }
 * }} Arborist
 */

const fs = require('fs/promises');
const path = require('path');
/** @type {Arborist} */
// @ts-ignore missing types for @npmcli/arborist
const arborist = require('@npmcli/arborist');
const { findRoot } = require('@manypkg/find-root');

/**
 * @typedef {{
 *  workspace: boolean;
 *  type: 'prod' | 'dev' | 'peer' | 'optional'
 *  to: Node;
 * }} Edge
 */

/**
 * @typedef {{
 *  isLink: boolean;
 *  location: string;
 *  realpath: string;
 *  target: Node;
 *  edgesOut: Map<string, Edge>;
 * }} Node
 */

/** @type {(node: Node) => Node} */
const resolveLink = (node) => (node.isLink ? resolveLink(node.target) : node);

/** @type {(node: Node, realPath: string) => Node | undefined} */
const getWorkspaceByPath = (node, realPath) =>
  [...node.edgesOut.values()]
    .filter((depEdge) => depEdge.workspace)
    .map((depEdge) => resolveLink(depEdge.to))
    .find((depNode) => depNode.realpath === realPath);

/** @type {(node: Node) => Node[]} */
const collectProdDeps = (node) =>
  [...node.edgesOut.values()]
    .filter((depEdge) => depEdge.type === 'prod')
    .map((depEdge) => resolveLink(depEdge.to))
    .flatMap((depNode) => [depNode, ...collectProdDeps(depNode)]);

/** @type {(source: string, destination: string) => Promise<void>} */
const bundle = async (source, destination) => {
  const root = await findRoot(source);
  const rootNode = await new arborist({ path: root.rootDir }).loadActual();
  const sourceNode = getWorkspaceByPath(rootNode, source);

  if (!sourceNode) {
    throw new Error("couldn't find source node");
  }

  const prodDeps = collectProdDeps(sourceNode);

  for (const dep of prodDeps) {
    const dest = path.join(destination, dep.location);

    await fs.cp(dep.realpath, dest, {
      recursive: true,
      errorOnExist: false,
    });
  }
};

module.exports = { bundle };

forge-config.js

'use strict';

const { bundle } = require('./bundler');

module.exports = {
  packagerConfig: {
    prune: false, // required for the workaround below to work
  },
  hooks: {
    packageAfterCopy: async (
      /** @type {any} */ forgeConfig,
      /** @type {string} */ buildPath,
      /** @type {string} */ electronVersion,
      /** @type {string} */ platform,
      /** @type {string} */ arch,
    ) => {
      // this is a workaround until we find a proper solution
      // for running electron-forge in a mono repository
      await bundle(__dirname, buildPath);
    },
  },
};

Thank you @robin-hartmann !
I needed to add recursive: true to fs.cp.
Also, in order to copy modules from workspaces I wrote:

for (const dep of prodDeps) {
  const dest = dep.isWorkspace
    ? path.join(destination, `node_modules/${dep.packageName}`)
    : path.join(destination, dep.location)

  await fs.cp(dep.realpath, dest, {
    recursive: true,
    errorOnExist: false,
    dereference: true,
  })
}

Thanks @robin-hartmann and @G-Ray! Was a headache for the past few days and this solution worked!

My project uses Vite and TypeScript, so if anyone is interested I rewrote the above code in TypeScript, combining @G-Ray 's code snippet in this gist.