Does not build with npm (Unsupported URL Type "link:")

[akauppi]

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Describe the bug

I wanted to have a look at the sources, and did this:

$ git clone git@github.com:vitejs/vite.git
$ cd vite
$ npm install
npm ERR! code EUNSUPPORTEDPROTOCOL
npm ERR! Unsupported URL Type "link:": link:./exports-path

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/asko/.npm/_logs/2021-01-29T15_39_50_219Z-debug.log

There are no instructions in the README as to how to set up the build environment, so I expect everything should work.

Reproducible

Commit d216da0e59bd5ab05a8eac38e99e9b6dd9461478

System Info

• vite version:
• Operating System: macOS 11.1 + Homebrew
• Node version: 15.5.0
• Package manager: npm 7.3.0

Logs (Optional if provided reproduction)

The npm log ends with:

...
4201 silly fetch manifest lodash-es@4.17.20
4202 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/lodash-es 27ms (from cache)
4203 silly placeDep ROOT lodash-es@4.17.20 OK for: optimize-deps-linked@0.0.0 want: ^4.17.20
4204 timing idealTree:packages/playground/optimize-deps-linked Completed in 29ms
4205 timing idealTree Completed in 17110ms
4206 timing command:install Completed in 17115ms
4207 verbose stack Error: Unsupported URL Type "link:": link:./exports-path
4207 verbose stack     at unsupportedURLType (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-package-arg/npa.js:200:15)
4207 verbose stack     at fromURL (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-package-arg/npa.js:258:13)
4207 verbose stack     at Function.resolve (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-package-arg/npa.js:77:12)
4207 verbose stack     at Arborist.[nodeFromEdge] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js:845:22)
4207 verbose stack     at Arborist.[buildDepStep] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js:796:36)
4207 verbose stack     at Arborist.[buildDepStep] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js:833:31)
4207 verbose stack     at async Arborist.buildIdealTree (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js:209:7)
4207 verbose stack     at async Promise.all (index 1)
4207 verbose stack     at async Arborist.reify (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js:123:5)
4207 verbose stack     at async install (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/install.js:38:3)
4208 verbose cwd /Users/asko/Temp/vite
4209 verbose Darwin 20.2.0
4210 verbose argv "/usr/local/Cellar/node/15.5.0/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
4211 verbose node v15.5.0
4212 verbose npm  v7.3.0
4213 error code EUNSUPPORTEDPROTOCOL
4214 error Unsupported URL Type "link:": link:./exports-path
4215 verbose exit 1

[akauppi]

Changing 4 occurrences of link: to file: makes the npm install succeed. However, I think it's implicitly intended that people use yarn. It would be good to mention this, eg. in Contributing Guide.

[kolchurinvv]

This is still yarn only. kinda bummer.

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