Can't find module @changesets/cli/changelog when installed globally

Affected Packages

@changesets/cli

Problem

I’m currently trying to use @changesets/cli within a pipeline without needing to install global dependencies to use changelogs. As such I have @changesets/cli globally installed on the pipeline runner, using npx to run the command.

When using npx changeset everything works fine, but using npx changeset version throws the following error:

$ npx changeset version
🦋  error Error: Cannot find module '@changesets/cli/changelog'
🦋  error Require stack:
🦋  error - /myuser/myproject/.changeset/noop.js
🦋  error     at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:956:15)
🦋  error     at resolveFileName (/myuser/.nvm/versions/node/v16.17.0/lib/node_modules/@changesets/cli/node_modules/resolve-from/index.js:29:39)
🦋  error     at resolveFrom (/myuser/.nvm/versions/node/v16.17.0/lib/node_modules/@changesets/cli/node_modules/resolve-from/index.js:43:9)
🦋  error     at Object.module.exports [as default] (/myuser/.nvm/versions/node/v16.17.0/lib/node_modules/@changesets/cli/node_modules/resolve-from/index.js:46:47)
🦋  error     at getNewChangelogEntry (/myuser/.nvm/versions/node/v16.17.0/lib/node_modules/@changesets/cli/node_modules/@changesets/apply-release-plan/dist/apply-release-plan.cjs.dev.js:391:54)
🦋  error     at Object.applyReleasePlan [as default] (/myuser/.nvm/versions/node/v16.17.0/lib/node_modules/@changesets/cli/node_modules/@changesets/apply-release-plan/dist/apply-release-plan.cjs.dev.js:301:37)
🦋  error     at version (/myuser/.nvm/versions/node/v16.17.0/lib/node_modules/@changesets/cli/dist/cli.cjs.dev.js:625:69)
🦋  error     at async run$2 (/myuser/.nvm/versions/node/v16.17.0/lib/node_modules/@changesets/cli/dist/cli.cjs.dev.js:1367:11) {
🦋  error   code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
🦋  error   requireStack: [
🦋  error     '/myuser/myproject/.changeset/noop.js'
🦋  error   ]
🦋  error }
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

I have looked into my global install of changesets and while changelog is a subdirectory within the package itself, it does not get installed into the packages node_modules, which is how I would explain why it can’t actually find the module.

Minimal reproduction

Navigate into the repository using changesets.

rm -rf node_modules npm i -g @changesets/cli npx changeset version

[greatyehanli]

Just found the workaround. I found that the changelog path configuration in config json is relative to the directory path of .changeset. If you want to refer to the actual code to see the instant result as you are coding, just give a relative path like { "changelog": "../{rootPathOfMonorepo}/changesets/packages/cli/changelog" }

[chris-ldgk]

The funny thing is that solution also doesn’t work.

Setting "changelog": "@changesets/changelog-git" in .changeset/config.json and then running npm i -g @changesets/cli @changesets/changelog-git && npx changeset version still throws the same error.

Though I’m inclined to think there’s a quirk about how globally installed npm packages work that I don’t know that’s causing this, rather than a problem with changesets.