What's the best way to run typedoc with plugins in a monorepo?

[kaiyoma]

I've been playing around with typedoc in our large monorepo (in "packages mode") and so far it's working really well!

However, I realize that I need to use a plugin and I'm not sure how to go about that. Like a good monorepo, we don't have (and don't want) a node_modules in the root; rather, there is a node_modules in every package. I've been running a globally installed typedoc from the root directory, but it seems I can't globally install a plugin and use that. What's the best way to go about this?

[kaiyoma]

Ah, I just had a thought. I could add a new monorepo package for everything typedoc-related and install the dependencies there. The only odd thing about this setup is that my typedoc config will have lots of relative entrypoints, like this:

entryPoints: [
  '../../packages/foo',
  '../../packages/bar,
  ...
]

Will this be an issue? Or will typedoc work just fine?

[Gerrit0]

This is actually exactly what I was going to recommend after reading your initial post, npm does not play well with peer dependencies and global installs.

[kaiyoma]

Okay great, I'll give it a whirl and report back.

[kaiyoma]

Yup, seems to be working. 🎉