lerna publish with prepublishOnly executes in leaf

When running lerna publish, it fails at prepublishOnly script as it runs on the leaf only instead from root.

Expected Behavior

lerna publish should run prepublishOnly script from root similar to lerna exec --scope <component> npm publish

Current Behavior

It fails at prepublishOnly script as it requires some binaries linking and we use lerna bootstrap --nohoist which doesn’t creates any .bin files like in lerna@2version.

And hence it fails

package.json

  "scripts": {
    "prepublishOnly": "npm run build",
    "build": "npm run build:clean && npm run build:lib",
    "build:clean": "rimraf lib",
    "build:lib": "webpack"
}

Error

> rimraf lib

sh: rimraf: command not found

The rmraf exist in the root node_modules but not in the leaf.

cmd (here lerna is an external command)

lerna publish 

but following run as expected when running through the script

 lerna publish --cd-version=prerelease --force-publish=* --no-verify-access

Possible Solution

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Executable	Version
lerna --version	3.13.0
npm --version	VERSION
yarn --version	VERSION
node --version	VERSION

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NAME	VERSION

[veeramarni]

I mean my issue was, the lerna doing differently when we run lerna command externally. For example (works fine):

package.json

  "scripts": {
    "publish": "lerna version --conventional-commits && lerna publish from-package --conventional-commits",
}

Which runs publish script in all the packages as expected and we don’t get any errors.

But when we ran through the external command like (here lerna was from global npm package)

lerna version --conventional-commits && lerna publish from-package --conventional-commits

It fails with the following error.

> rimraf lib

sh: rimraf: command not found

I understand, in leaf nodes, we need dev dependency on rimraf but I was expecting it would run from the root in both cases. Maybe I’m missing something here as I’m curious to find why it runs through the scripts without error otherwise not.

[evocateur]

Don’t use a global installation of lerna, only use a local install in the root devDependencies. npx lerna if you must run the commands outside of npm scripts.