`workspace:` specifier not supported for `package.json` dependency

[jonasb]

I'm using Deno in a monorepo where I use pnpm as the package manager (through rush).

To refer to other packages in the same monorepo, I use the version specifier "workspace:*", which is not supported by Deno's package.json functionality.

My package.json file looks like this:

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "@dossierhq/core": "workspace:*"
  }
}

I get this warning when deno task test:

Warning Ignoring dependency '@dossierhq/core' in package.json because its version requirement failed to parse: Not implemented scheme: @dossierhq/core

It would be great if Deno could support "workspace:*" in package.json so I don't need to use import maps to support monorepo setups.

[dsherret]

Oh, that error message is wrong. I opened https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/18209

[ericallam]

We also need this for running tests in a pnpm monorepo (https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev)

[himself65]

I want to have this feature. I'm a library maintainer. I want to support both deno, node and bun. So I need to run build and node --test ./node/*.test.ts & deno test ./deno/*.test.ts & bun test ./bun/*.test.ts in one time

[castarco]

Our use case is a little bit different, but also monorepo-related:

We have internal automation tools written in TypeScript, and we'd like it to skip the compilation step and run them directly with Deno instead of Node. That would help us a lot to simplify our internal automations.

[ssadler]

Im running all my code this way and ts-node is a disaster plz halp 🥺

[birkskyum]

Hit the "Not implemented scheme 'workspace'" as well, using pnpm for workspaces but wanted to run one of the packages (a simple REST server) with deno

[bartlomieju]

Support for npm workspace is something @dsherret is gonna look into in a few weeks, once we finalize Deno workspace support (to avoid code conflicts).