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I can get non-local workspaces to work (e.g. `@pulumi/aws` ) by symlinking.

But local workspaces complain with
```failed to compute asset hash: asset path 'node_modules/@tetrateio-components/aws-lambda' is a directory; try using an archive```

the only difference I can see is that my local workspaces/packages have no generated javascript?

the other difference looks like `@pulumi/pulumi`  is a directory but `@tetrateio-components/aws-lambda`  is a symlink

I think they're the same as described in <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/4780> and <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/2619#issuecomment-592543664>: you can't use inline lambdas (that is, CallbackFunction and similar mixins) unless you also have an already-generated node_modules in the same directory that Pulumi is bundling into the zip.

My workaround is to link the project's node_modules into any directory that has a CallbackFunction. So long as the CallbackFunction only uses code that is also used in the main project (so that the node_modules directory has all required dependencies), then it works.

(Aside: this has the downside that I can't run my mocha tests from those directories, because I can't get mocha to find packages.json in a parent directory if it has already found node_modules...)

interesting so even when I symlink node_modules I see that error ^^

(but only for local workspaces, external packages work fine)

we used to use node_modules symlink and it worked before we migrated to yarn workspaces

so its something specific to how yarn handles local workspaces

Local workspaces are links from /node_modules to the workspace, right? If your workspace contains .ts files, then the imports won't work. If you're compiling to /lib/ (based on your tsconfig's _outdir_), then you need /lib to be your workspace...

The link would need to be /node_modules/myproj -&gt; /lib/myproj, not -&gt; /myproj.

But I think you can do that in yarn workspaces using the name property?

That is, /myproj/package.json needs `"name": "/lib/myproj"`. (Completely untested.. that's derived only from reading <https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/workspaces/#toc-how-to-use-it>)

yes, local modules are symlinks in the node_modules. We don’t compile to JS anywhere so let me try that.

compiling js didnt seem to help, going to have to give up for now and come back to this :sweat_smile: