eslint-plugin-import not working with Bit

[dreamawakening]

I use eslint-plugin-import to verify packages I'm importing exist/are correct. It checks package.json to see if a dependency exists. See this rule for details.

However, because I'm installing dependencies with bit install, it means dependencies aren't populated in package.json. Therefore I can't use eslint-plugin-import. I don't want to disable it just so I can use Bit.

Is there a way to get this to work with Bit?

[itaymendel]

As this rule requires a package.json at the base of your repository, you will need to have one.

You can manage dependencies in a package.json instead of using workspace.jsonc. Bit will read dependencies from there if needed. However, there are a couple of things to know:

1. Add dependencies with npm i / yarn add directly, not with bit install.
2. Add bit link to you post install for Bit to generate your component-dists in node_modules (package managers sometimes remove directories they don't manage from node_modules).
3. Ensure no dependencies are listed in your workspace.json.
4. You can still use bit install to install deps, as Bit propagates to your package.json for installing all your components.

If you do take this route, you loose Bit's automated "workspace" management for dependencies, where if different components require different versions of the same dependency, Bit automates Yarn workspaces or pnpm workspaces (and soon npm workspaces) behind the scenes for this to work seamlessly.

[dreamawakening]

@itaymendel I do have a package.json file. However, I don't manage my dependencies in here with Yarn due to the limitations you mentioned. I read that in the docs earlier.

Instead, I use bit install. However, this doesn't populate package.json, meaning it doesn't work with eslint-plugin-import (for the reasons I described).

Additionally, there's another problem. When I import my own components inside a component, such as:

import "@cannabitrx/tailwind.config";

eslint-plugin-import won't pick up on this either. Because @cannabitrx/tailwind.config isn't in my node_modules, and it's also not listed in the package.json. So it doesn't work for this case, either.

[GiladShoham]

see also my comments here