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Currently, the npmClient ionic uses can only be set globally, using e.g.:
ionic config set -g npmClient pnpm
In my opinion, it should be possible to override this on a project level, e.g.:
ionic config set npmClient pnpm
This commands "succeeds" and updates the ionic.config.json
, but ionic doesn't check that file for this parameter (a bit confusing).
The use cases:
- We have some older projects that use npm, and newer once use pnpm. It has happened multiple times that I run
ionic build
when i just switched project and forgot to switch package manager. This then creates apnpm-lock
file in annpm
project. And regularly breaks my dependencies and requires deletingnode-modules
and reinstalling. This wastes time. - We have pipelines that build iOS projects on local MacMini's. However, if the global ionic package manager changes, and a pipeline doesn't have the setting to change it back, the build breaks. It's not always obvious that the issue is caused by a switch in package manager.
This was previously suggested in #4570, but was not implemented because the lack of use cases.