yarn workspaces?

[naseemkullah]

Yarn workspaces could take care of dependency management pretty nicely, we could continue to use lerna for its utility commands.

https://doppelmutzi.github.io/monorepo-lerna-yarn-workspaces/

Configure lerna to leave dependency management to yarn workspaces and use its utility commands instead

[dyladan]

I recently evaluated yarn workspaces and was not able to get it to work because of test failures caused by the fact that we are using require in the middle to intercept requires for the instrumentation tests. If you can get it working I think this is a great idea.

[nirsky]

Actually, we had require-in-the-middle issues in our plugins contrib repo, which uses yarn workspaces, while testing with jest.
I suspected the issue was related to jest overriding the require function as well.

After moving to mocha I was able to get the tests to work, while keeping yarn workspaces.
So I'm not sure there's an issue with yarn workspaces.

[vmarchaud]

We use mocha expect for browser tests i believe, not sure if we can switch them over

[dyladan]

The mocha tests were failing anyway