Is it possible to run npm programs that run local scripts which require from a local node modules folder?

[schuelermine]

For instance, Eleventy executes a script .eleventy.js which, when using Node, can call require to import packages from node_modules.

But when using deno run --node-modules-dir npm:@11ty/eleventy this fails.

Curiously, it does succeed when node_modules is generated by npm, not Deno, but Eleventy is still run with Deno.

I can't convert the imports to ES modules because Eleventy itself requires the file, so it causes an error.

Why can the file not import from the node modules directory? Is there some workaround?

[bartlomieju]

Can you paste what's the exact error?

[schuelermine]

I figured out what the problem was. I was importing an indirect dependency, which works if node_modules is laid out like npm does it, but not like Deno does it.