Resolving static assets from a linked dep inside a monorepo

Describe the bug

When I run tsc && vite build --watch --mode development command of my app in a pnpm workspaces monorepo, vite is unable to resolve static assets referenced in a linked dependency of that app.

In my case: apps/outlook imports the packages/calendar package (a react calendar client built with vite as well). The calendar has some .tsx files that reference some statis assets of their own.

Error:

Could not resolve '../../assets/info.svg' from ../../packages/calendar/src/components/action-pane/action-pane.tsx

Research:

• I tried asking the question on Discord & Twitter first but didn’t get any response
• I also searched through other issues (Monorepo assets serving error, Wrong JSX runtime in linked dependency) but in one case they’re not importing a react packages that uses static assets, in the other it’s about the react runtime in the bundle.
• I’ve also tried having build.assetsDir point to the linked dep, but that of course will lead to assets from apps/outlook to not be resolved as it’s not assuming only one asset directory (there’s an issue open about this use case)

Reproduction

https://stackblitz.com/edit/github-zdg7ym?file=apps%2Foutlook%2Fpackage.json

System Info

vite version: 3.0.0
Operating System: macOS
Node version: v16.14.2
Package manager: `pnpm` v7.9.4-0

Also: `@vitejs/plugin-react`: v2.0.1

Used Package Manager

pnpm

Logs

Expand `--debug` logs

  vite:config bundled config file loaded in 807.70ms +0ms
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vite v3.0.8 building for development...

watching for file changes...

build started...
✓ 324 modules transformed.
Could not resolve '../../assets/info.svg' from ../../packages/calendar/src/components/action-pane/action-pane.tsx
transforming (607) ../../node_mod

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[p6l-richard]

Thanks for pointing this out @sapphi-red. I have stripped away all the unnecessary stuff now.

I did leave the monorepo setup with apps/outlook importing the packages/calendar because it’s the asset resolution of the package that’s the issue.

As outlined in the readme, the steps to reproduce are (from the workspace root):

1. pnpm i
2. pnpm outlook build:dev --debug

Here’s a screenshare where I did just that. https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18185649/186877078-ae279b4d-255c-4d0f-aff7-dbbc676642ff.mov

[sapphi-red]

It did not reproduce on Windows but it did reproduce on Stackblitz. You are using import infoIcon from '../../assets/info.svg'; but it should be import infoIcon from '../../assets/Info.svg';. packages/calendar/src/assets/Info.svg has a capital I.