extending "@nrwl/schematics"-"lib" produces "Cannot read property 'schematics' of undefined"

Description

We cannot execute the lib schematic when running our own schematic (that is extending the lib schematic) as a node_modules package in another repo. We are getting the error Cannot read property 'schematics' of undefined when this line of code is executed:

externalSchematic("@nrwl/schematics", "lib", {name: "foo", style: "scss"}),

Where exactly, we don’t know; there is no stacktrace.

It seems the problem is not with the packaging - we can use our schematic in our main repo from node_modules; only when importing the module via verdaccio in another repo, it occurs.

We tried using "@nrwl/workspace" instead of "@nrwl/schematics" but that fails with Cannot read property 'architect' of undefined

Considering the complicated environment, we can’t really provide a minimal example for you to reproduce, but perhaps you have some advice what might be the problem or how to debug this?

Environment

  @nrwl/angular : 8.11.1
  @nrwl/cli : 9.3.0
  @nrwl/cypress : 8.11.1
  @nrwl/eslint-plugin-nx : Not Found
  @nrwl/express : Not Found
  @nrwl/jest : 9.3.0
  @nrwl/linter : Not Found
  @nrwl/nest : Not Found
  @nrwl/next : Not Found
  @nrwl/node : Not Found
  @nrwl/react : Not Found
  @nrwl/schematics : 8.12.11
  @nrwl/tao : 9.3.0
  @nrwl/web : Not Found
  @nrwl/workspace : 9.3.0
  typescript : 3.5.3

[adrianbarwicki]

The fix for this behaviour is to remove workspace.json.

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