Running the generator from a local folder no longer works in 5.0.0

[sneridagh]

Type of issue

Bug

My environment

• OS version/details: eg. Windows 10 64-bit
• Node version: v20.9.0 (run node --version in your terminal)
• npm version: 10.1.0 (run npm --version in your terminal)
• Version of yo : 5.0.0 (run yo --version in your terminal)

Expected behavior

Running the generator from a local folder no longer works in 5.0.0

Current behavior

It shows that you need a generator instead of running the generator

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Try to run from a local folder instead of specifying the generator.

Command line output

❯ yo ./packages/generator-volto/generators/addon volto-test-addon -description "test volto addon" --volto . --skip-install --no-interactive -o testaddon
Error ./packages/generator-volto/generators/addon volto-test-addon -description test volto addon --volto . --skip-install --no-interactive -o testaddon

You don't seem to have a generator with the name “undefined” installed.
But help is on the way:

You can see available generators via npm search yeoman-generator or via http://yeoman.io/generators/.
Install them with npm install undefined.

To see all your installed generators run yo --generators. Adding the --help option will also show subgenerators.

If yo cannot find the generator, run yo doctor to troubleshoot your system.

[strmer15]

I've tracked this down locally to the @yeoman/namespace package, which the yeoman-environment v4 uses to parse the generator's namespace, but it doesn't seem to work with local paths. I've created yeoman/yeoman-api#5 for that problem, and just to note that there was a related issue in yeoman-environment at yeoman/environment#497 for this too. cc @mshima

[tibbing]

@mshima Is there any plan to patch this? It seems both related issues have been closed. The yeoman v4 packages now contains sub-dependencies with vulnerabilities, and this prevents us from upgrading to yo@v5.

[mshima]

@tibbing because they have been fixed in yeoman/environment@cd68282.

[tibbing]

@tibbing because they have been fixed in yeoman/environment@cd68282.

@mshima Hmm, we are still observing the same error when generating locally using yo@5.0.0, yeoman-generator@7.1.1 and yeoman-environment@4.3.0:

You don't seem to have a generator with the name “undefined” installed.

I guess yeoman-environment needs to be upgraded in yo as well?

[TomerAberbach]

Same. @mshima, are you planning to upgrade yeoman-environment to at least v4.2.0? Seems like we need that for the yo to work with a local folder. Also happy to send a PR with the upgrade if you're busy

[tibbing]

Hey @mshima! Would be awesome to get this patched, as @TomerAberbach said it's probably as simple as to upgrade yeoman-environment to the latest version 🙂