When running the Discourse Theme CLI in a theme component repo with pnpm node_modules installed, the discourse_theme watch . command will return errors about node_modules/.pnpm directories already being watched. At a cursory glance, this due to the packages being symlinked. I have tested this in a …

Discourse Theme CLI errors with pnpm installed node_modules due to symlinks

david (David Taylor) January 9, 2025, 6:38pm 6

This PR will apply the ignore rule, and silence the warnings. Thanks for creating the topic and investigation @Alteras - these warnings have been annoying me too!

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