package-lock.json is not updated

[kettil]

I have created a test monorepo and when I publish a package, the global package-lock.json is not updated with it.

Timeline:

• When I call npx multi-semantic-release, package.json and CHANGELOG.md are updated.
• Then I call npm install and the package-lock.json is updated with the version jump.

[antongolub]

Hey, @kettil,

msr by design splits pkg scopes by directories. Each release process operates a single path, so none of them even know about the root level, where package-lock.json is placed.

As a quick workaround, you may create a magic package to invoke smth like npm i && git add package-lock.json && git commit ... after all other packages have produced their changes. See https://github.com/semantic-release/exec plugin docs for details.

UPD Or much simpler: multi-semantic-release && npm i && git add package-lock.json && git commit ...

[kettil]

@antongolub Thank you for the quick reply.

Your quick fix seems the best solution if structurally it is not possible....

Thanks

[kettil]

FYI

I had planned to run the npm i && git add <...> before the commit of SR. But due to parallelization this is not possible, because the different packages can interfere with each other.

The other disadvantage is that the npm i && git add <...> command is executed per package.

So the command must be executed outside of SR.