feat: symlink core aspects from a symlink that points to the current Bit CLI

scopes/dependencies/dependency-resolver/dependency-linker.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { BitError } from '@teambit/bit-error';
 import componentIdToPackageName from '@teambit/legacy/dist/utils/bit/component-id-to-package-name';
 import { EnvsMain } from '@teambit/envs';
 import { AspectLoaderMain, getCoreAspectName, getCoreAspectPackageName, getAspectDir } from '@teambit/aspect-loader';
+import { findCurrentBvmDir } from '@teambit/bvm.path';
 import {
   MainAspectNotLinkable,
   RootDirNotDefined,
@@ -103,6 +104,8 @@ type NestedModuleFolderEntry = {
 };
 
 export class DependencyLinker {
+  private _currentBitDir: string | null;
+
   constructor(
     private dependencyResolver: DependencyResolverMain,
 
@@ -119,7 +122,9 @@ export class DependencyLinker {
     private linkingOptions?: LinkingOptions,
 
     private linkingContext: DepLinkerContext = {}
-  ) {}
+  ) {
+    this._currentBitDir = findCurrentBvmDir(process.argv[1]);
+  }
 
   async calculateLinkedDeps(
     rootDir: string | undefined,
@@ -532,7 +537,7 @@ export class DependencyLinker {
     const isAspectDirExist = fs.pathExistsSync(aspectDir);
     if (!isAspectDirExist) {
       this.logger.debug(`linkCoreAspect: aspectDir ${aspectDir} does not exist, linking it to ${target}`);
-      aspectDir = getAspectDir(id);
+      aspectDir = getAspectDir(id, this._currentBitDir);
       return { aspectId: id, linkDetail: { packageName, from: aspectDir, to: target } };
     }
 
@@ -580,6 +585,9 @@ export class DependencyLinker {
 
     const packageName = `@teambit/${name}`;
     const target = path.join(rootDir, 'node_modules', packageName);
+    if (this._currentBitDir) {
+      return { packageName, from: path.join(this._currentBitDir, 'node_modules', packageName), to: target };
+    }
     const isDistDirExist = fs.pathExistsSync(distDir);
     if (!isDistDirExist) {
       const newDir = getDistDirForDevEnv(packageName);

scopes/harmony/aspect-loader/core-aspects.ts

@@ -22,10 +22,18 @@ function getAspectDirFromPath(id: string, pathsToResolveAspects?: string[]): str
   return dirPath;
 }
 
-export function getAspectDir(id: string): string {
+export function getAspectDir(id: string, currentBitDir?: string | null): string {
   const aspectName = getCoreAspectName(id);
   let dirPath;
 
+  if (currentBitDir) {
+    dirPath = resolve(currentBitDir, 'node_modules/@teambit', aspectName);
+    if (!existsSync(dirPath)) {
+      throw new Error(`unable to find ${aspectName} in ${dirPath}`);
+    }
+    return dirPath;
+  }
+
   try {
     dirPath = getAspectDirFromPath(id);
   } catch (err: any) {

workspace.jsonc

@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
         "@teambit/base-ui.utils.time-ago": "1.0.1",
         "@teambit/bit.content.what-is-bit": "1.96.2",
         "@teambit/bvm.config": "0.2.2",
+        "@teambit/bvm.path": "^0.0.2",
         "@teambit/capsule": "0.0.12",
         "@teambit/code.ui.code-compare-section": "0.0.5",
         "@teambit/code.ui.dependency-tree": "0.0.546",