circular dependencies making knip stuck

[blephy]

Reproduction url

https://github.com/blephy/knip-circulare-dep

Description of the issue

Given a mono-repository, if it's contains project which are dependent on each other, knip is running in loop and never failed.

Yes, circular dependencies are bad, but there is some case you cannot do anything about :

• a prettier-config project
• an eslint-config project

Each are requesting each other.

I did manage to bypass this bug by not including in their package.json's devDependencies the package, but instead to rely on a relative import in configs.

instead of :

{
  "name": "prettier-config",
  "devDependencies": {
    "eslint-config": "workspace: *"
  }
}

and

module.exports = {
  root: true,
  extends: ['eslint-config'],
};

do :

{
  "name": "prettier-config",
  "devDependencies": {
  }
}

and

module.exports = {
  root: true,
  extends: ['../eslint-config/index.cjs'],
};

[webpro]

https://i-do-no-have.com/

it-is-required.though

[blephy]

https://i-do-no-have.com/

it-is-required.though

I will make it in a couple of hours. Sorry i do not have time right now

[blephy]

cc @webpro

https://github.com/blephy/knip-circulare-dep

[webpro]

No issues here:

❯ pnpm knip

> root@1.0.0 knip /Users/lars/p/knip/exercises/knip-circulare-dep
> VITE_CJS_IGNORE_WARNING=true knip

Unused devDependencies (2)
eslint-config  libs/prettier-config/package.json
nx             package.json
Unlisted dependencies (1)
eslint-config-eslint-config  libs/prettier-config/.eslintrc.cjs
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.

[blephy]

Hum ...

is it relative to Node / OS ?

i'm on

ProductName:		macOS
ProductVersion:		14.5
BuildVersion:		23F79
Node:                     v20.16.0

Or maybe a root .npmrc which change node-linker ? https://pnpm.io/npmrc#node-linker

[webpro]

You could try CSB or SB: https://knip.dev/guides/issue-reproduction#templates