Cannot find module "@commitlint/config-conventional" when running commintlint globally

Expected Behavior

I installed commitlint and commitlint/config-conventional globally, thus running echo 'hello world' | commitlint under any directory should works.

Current Behavior

The command raises an exception.

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/lib/cli.js:67
                throw err;
                ^

Error: Cannot find module "@commitlint/config-conventional" from "/home/fabrizio"
    at resolveId (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/@commitlint/resolve-extends/lib/index.js:134:12)
    at resolveConfig (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/@commitlint/resolve-extends/lib/index.js:111:18)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/@commitlint/resolve-extends/lib/index.js:63:18
    at Array.reduce (<anonymous>)
    at loadExtends (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/@commitlint/resolve-extends/lib/index.js:61:32)
    at resolveExtends (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/@commitlint/resolve-extends/lib/index.js:44:17)
    at Object.$If_1 (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/@commitlint/core/lib/load.js:90:46)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/@commitlint/core/lib/load.js:159:18)
    at <anonymous>

Affected packages

• cli
• config-conventional

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. npm install -g @commitlint/cli @commitlint/config-conventional
2. echo "module.exports = {extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional']};" > ~/.commitlintrc.js
3. echo 'should fail' | commitlint

commitlint.config.js

```js module.exports = {extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional']}; ```

Your Environment

Executable	Version
commitlint --version	7.5.2
git --version	2.17.1
node --version	8.10.0

[escapedcat]

I think commitlint is usually being used on a per project basis. So each project has it’s own config. If you want to use it globally like you tried you could use the --config option and try this:

echo 'should fail' | commitlint --config ~/.commitlintrc.js

[politician]

Workaround for those in the same case as me, manually include the rules from your chosen config in your commitlint.config.js config file.

Here are the rules for @commitlint/config-conventional in YAML:

.commitlintrc.yaml

---
# The rules below have been manually copied from @commitlint/config-conventional
# and match the v1.0.0 specification:
# https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/#specification
#
# You can remove them and uncomment the config below when the following issue is
# fixed: https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint/issues/613
#
# extends:
#   - '@commitlint/config-conventional'
rules:
  body-leading-blank: [1, always]
  body-max-line-length: [2, always, 100]
  footer-leading-blank: [1, always]
  footer-max-line-length: [2, always, 100]
  header-max-length: [2, always, 100]
  subject-case:
    - 2
    - never
    - [sentence-case, start-case, pascal-case, upper-case]
  subject-empty: [2, never]
  subject-full-stop: [2, never, "."]
  type-case: [2, always, lower-case]
  type-empty: [2, never]
  type-enum:
    - 2
    - always
    - [build, chore, ci, docs, feat, fix, perf, refactor, revert, style, test]