subrepo-install
The easy way to set up a standalone subrepo outside its monorepo.
Warning
This tool is intended for projects using pnpm only! If you use a different package manager, please open an issue.
pnpm add subrepo-install
How it works
Use subrepo-install in a postinstall script to clone dependencies that would otherwise be provided by a monorepo. If a dependency always needs to be cloned, you can do that too.
This approach is specifically designed to work well with git-subrepo.
If subrepo-install is used in a workspace context, it will realize this automatically and link to the monorepo-provided dependencies instead of cloning them.
Additionally, you can inherit dependencies from these sub-dependencies by setting the inheritDependencies option. This is similar to pnpm's Catalogs feature, but is designed to work with git-subrepo.