Adding plugins from GitHub/Gitlab repositories

[rhumbertgz]

Adding plugins from GitHub/Gitlab repositories

[mdonnalley]

@rhumbertgz Thanks for creating the issue.

The problem is that when you install from github, gitlab, or a local project (using yarn add file:...) the dependency is added as a pure typescript project with no compiled javascript.

If you're doing this for local development purposes, I would suggest cloning the repo, building it, and then using yarn link to add the dependency to your project.

If you absolutely must import from github, you can update the bin/dev script to have ts-node not ignore the oclif plugins inside of node_modules, .e.g

require('ts-node').register({project, ignore: ['/node_modules/(?!@oclif/plugin-*)']})

However, I'd encourage you to steer away from that solution if possible.

This ts-node issue goes into more depth on the issue of having pure typescript modules in node_modules if you're interested: TypeStrong/ts-node#155

I'm going to close this issue for now but feel free to reopen if you think there's more to this than what I found.

[rhumbertgz]

@mdonnalley thanks for reaching out with the explanation. I just installed private registry (Verdaccio) to make my development easier