improve support for monorepos and nohoist option

[sibelius]

When you have a patch, the patch is only applied on root node_modules

it should be applied to all node_modules, this is need when using nohoist options

check this example https://github.com/entria/entria-fullstack

Usually we use nohoist to work some issues on react-native projects

the structure is like this

• node_modules
• packages
  --- app\node_modules
  --- server\node_modules

[ds300]

Hey Sibelius! Sorry for the late reply! You can patch unhoisted packages by setting up patch-package in sub packages the same way that you set it up in the root package. Creating patch files works the same, except your working directory needs to be the sub package rather than the root package. Patch files should be applied regardless of where you run yarn install from :)

[sibelius]

we could have a cli flag that determines if the patch should be run only on root node_modules or in all node_modules

imagine that I have this package nohoist dependency in many packages, I will need to have many packages and run many patch-packages to fix them all

I think it makes sense to always patch all of them, as patch just one could cause some troubles

[ds300]

Hmm true. I can also image that you might not want to patch all of them 🤔 and the current behaviour is less restrictive in that regard.

we could have a cli flag that determines if the patch should be run only on root node_modules or in all node_modules

Are you imagining a flag that applies to all patched packages or one that lets you specify which packages should be patched in their unhoisted state.

There's also the question of how to create the patch file 🤔