"shamefully-hoist" inversion: only "shamefully-hoist" devDependencies as an option?

[ScottAwesome]

Hi all!

Just had a thought of an idea:

I know that this is probably way more complex than I imagine, but something that struck me is one of the big reasons why alot of codebases end up with shamefully-hoist=true is because some big packages are still not well behaved in the symlinked enviornment (looking at you storybook, nuxt, and vue!)

to try and avoid this, I first did this:

public-hoist-pattern[]=*storybook*
public-hoist-pattern[]=*nuxt*
public-hoist-pattern[]=*nuxi*
public-hoist-pattern[]=*vue*

but i noticed that in doing this, their dependent packages aren't completely hoisted either, so it ended up being more scralled. Just for nuxt I had to do the following, which was look at each nuxt package.json for each package, and hoist everything in their dependencies object in their respective package.json

rinse and repeat with storybook, and I was still running into edge cases, which lead to me to finally collapse and shamefully-hoist and feel the shame knowing I'm shamefully hoisting 😢

Then I had the bright thought, maybe, that what if we could invert this, where there was some sort of hoist deep for specified packages? Maybe something that is like shamefully-hoist-devdeps or hoist-pattern-deep[] or something? I'm not sure if this is feasible, per se, but it would allow better strictness to be allowed even when dealing with offending packages.

In particular, if its possible to simply hoist for only the given dependency rather than hoist to the top of node modules, it'd be prime time!

Some kind of selective inverted hoisting control here basically. I'm not sure if its feasbile, I know in other dicussions things like selectively per package shamefully-hoisting isn't possible, but what if the "shameful" hoist was scoped to the lower package? Maybe some magic with symlinks would do the trick here?

[zkochan]

It is probably possible to implement. The changes would mostly be in https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/tree/main/packages/hoist