Does not support local file paths in package.json

[al6x]

NPM support local file path package declaration in package.json

I specified the following dependency in my project. The VS Code can see the mypackage correctly, if you click on some function that's imported from there like mypackage/somefile - it will navigate there correctly etc.

{
  ...
  "dependencies": {
    "mypackage": "file:/myprojects/mylocalpackage"
  }
}

But when I ran it with ts-node it throw an error that it can't find mypackage/somefile package.

[blakeembrey]

Can you make a reproducible example? I haven't had any issues with doing the same thing.

[al6x]

Sure https://github.com/alexeypetrushin/file-dependency-example

Instructions how to run in readme

$ ts-node -v
v8.3.0
$ node -v
v11.2.0

VS Code is able to understand it correctly.

[blakeembrey]

I haven't been able to replicate this in 8.x:

❯ ts-node alib.ts
hello from b

However, I noticed on the latest builds (going to be v9) this will be broken and you'll be expected to use references going forward.

[cspotcode]

npm uses symlinks for file: dependencies. Maybe this was a symlink issue? If so, #970 should hopefully have solved any symlink issues.

I can't seem to reproduce this bug locally so I'm going to close it.