Forked relay-compiler breaks .bin script

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Describe the bug

The forked version of relay-compiler overwrites the script installed to .bin by the regular version of relay-compiler. This can cause builds to use an incorrect version of the relay compiler.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a new, empty package with npm init.
2. Install relay-compiler: npm install --save relay-compiler.
3. The relay-compiler script in .bin points to the correct place.
4. Install @graphql-codegen/typescript: npm install --save @graphql-codegen/[email protected].
5. The relay-compiler script in .bin is updated to point to the v12 fork used in @graphql-tools/relay-operation-optimizer

Expected behavior

The forked version of relay-compiler (@ardatan/[email protected]) should not include the bin entry in its package.json:

"bin": {
    "relay-compiler": "bin/relay-compiler"
  },

and so wouldn't overwrite the relay-compiler script in the .bin folder.

Environment:

• OS: Windows 10
• @graphql-tools/[email protected]:
• NodeJS: v16.13.2
• NPM: 8.17.0

Additional context

There doesn't seem to be a repo for the forked relay-compiler (@ardatan/relay-compiler) that I could see to add this issue to.

[AnotherHermit]

We have the same issue, and are currently using "@graphql-codegen/typescript": "2.4.11", as a workaround since that version still works

[antonioguerra]

Hi, same issue here.

(npm init -y && npm i relay-compiler @graphql-tools/relay-operation-optimizer) > /dev/null && readlink node_modules/.bin/relay-compiler

../@ardatan/relay-compiler/bin/relay-compiler

Any ideas @ardatan ?

[edvinerikson]

Another workaround that seem to work:

create a new folder and package.json

// in relay-compiler-patch/package.json
{
  "name": "@ardatan/relay-compiler",
  "version": "0.0.0"
}

then in your top-level package.json, enable workspaces:

  "workspaces": [
    "relay-compiler-patch",
  ],

if you already use workspaces, just drop the package.json inside any of the workspace paths.