Skip some directory

[mathpere]

Hi,

Is there currently a way to skip some dir (root dir or module) from npm-workspace process?
I didn't find it in code source.

Thanks in advance,

Mathieu

[mariocasciaro]

Not at the moment, everything in the workspace will be installed by npm-workspace.
Can you tell me what's the reason for excluding a dir/module? Just trying to understand the use case.

[mathpere]

I have currently 2 use cases:

1/ Speed up deployments.
My project contains many modules and I deploy on several environments. Not all modules are required in each environment.

2/ Simplify deployment.

• I would like to exclude root directory.
• I install npm-workspace locally (not globally)

My package.json would have this form:

{
  "name": "my-project",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "npm-workspace": "^0.2.1"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "npm-workspace install",
    "clean": "npm-workspace clean"
  }
}

And installation would be in one single line:

npm install

I don't know your plans about workspace.json structure but we could imagine something like that:

{
  "links": {
    "my-subproject-1": "my-subproject-1",
    "my-subproject-2": "my-subproject-2"
  },
  "excludes": [
    ".",
    "my-subproject-3"
  ]
}

[toddbluhm]

👍

I too think this would be a very helpful feature.

My use case is I have all work projects in one root directory with the workspace.json. They are all private npm packages, but a few of them are public. Those public ones I don't need npm-workspace installed each time, but I still need the ability to npm-workspace install them when I do upgrade those public packages either for node version or whatever and being able to link them to the private packages for testing is extremely useful.