Usage with npx

[gimre]

Hey, trying to use grapql-code-generator with npx but not getting anywhere :(

Context

Maintaining a npm workspaces repository with multiple packages and looking to migrate from apollo codegen to grapql-code-generator. Previous setup didn't include apollo cli in any of the packages but expected developers to have it installed on their machine. Codegen would be defined and run at the package level like this ~

"scripts": {
   "codegen": "apollo codegen [...]"
}

npm run codegen -w <worskpace_name>

Problem

While configuring grapql-code-generator I installed @graphql-codegen/cli and '@graphql-codegen/typescriptinside one of the packages that already hadgraphql` as a dependency and that ended up working fine.

Trying to generalize for all packages, i tried switching to

"scripts": {
   "codegen": "npx -p @graphl-codegen/cli grapql-code-generator"
}

but this results the unresolved peerDependency graphql. Did not find a way to force npx to install graphql aswell before running the cli.

Tried installing graphql, @graphl-codegen/cli and @graphql-codegen/typescript globally and that will resolve the graphql dependency issue but will break with

    ✖ Invalid Custom Plugin "typescript"
      Plugin typescript does not export a valid JS object with "plugin" function.
      Make sure your custom plugin is written in the following form:
      module.exports = {
      plugin: (schema, documents, config) => {
      return 'my-custom-plugin-content';
      },
      };

I assume this is due to a resolution issue, since codegen.ts is inside a workspace package and everything else is in npm cache.

All this happens if i try to install packages at the root level aswell.

So...

Is there any way to either use the cli via npx or at least have it installed at the root level once instead of inside every workspace package?

[n1ru4l]

Hey @gimre, can you share a reproduction respository of your issue? Adding codegen and graphql as a dev dependency to the root workspace should just work fine