[cna] Ensure created app is not considered the workspace root in pnpm by eps1lon · Pull Request #88647 · vercel/next.js

eps1lon · 2026-01-16T15:45:39Z

Follow-up to #83168

With packages, pnpm will assume the package is the workspace root and demand the -w flag (ERR_PNPM_ADDING_TO_ROOT). Even if packages is empty.

Since we only need packages for v9 (which doesn't even support ignoreBuiltDependencies), we just skip generation of pnpm-workspace.yaml entirely which also means we can drop packages

I originally skipped the check because I wanted to avoid an expensive pnpm invocation. Cursor figured we can use npm_config_user_agent (see pnpm/pnpm#3985) to parse the version from which avoids spawning a sub process entirely. We still fallback to pnpm --quiet --version if the env variable is not available.

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v9 produces no workspace.yml p create next-app@http://vercel-packages.vercel.app/next/commits/399b272b713abcb1c63c28c93cc082d2b41b031b/create-next-app next-pnpm-built-workspace-yml
v10 produces workspace.yml p create next-app@http://vercel-packages.vercel.app/next/commits/399b272b713abcb1c63c28c93cc082d2b41b031b/create-next-app next-pnpm-built-workspace-yml

- Add getPnpmMajorVersion() helper to detect pnpm major version from npm_config_user_agent or by running pnpm --version - Only create pnpm-workspace.yaml with ignoredBuiltDependencies for pnpm v10+, which doesn't require the packages field - Skip creating pnpm-workspace.yaml for pnpm v9 and below to avoid ERR_PNPM_ADDING_TO_ROOT errors when running pnpm add Fixes issues where users on pnpm v9 would get errors when trying to add dependencies because pnpm workspace.yaml was being created.

- Add test to verify pnpm-workspace.yaml IS created for pnpm v10+ - Add test to verify pnpm-workspace.yaml is NOT created for pnpm v9

cursor · 2026-01-16T15:45:40Z

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When the pnpm version cannot be determined from user agent or by running pnpm --version, assume latest (v10+) since we already know pnpm is being used at that point in the code.

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- Add --quiet flag to pnpm --version to ensure clean output - Move pnpm workspace comment inside the if block

packages/create-next-app/helpers/get-pkg-manager.ts

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- Use --skip-install for v9/v10 workspace tests since CI runs pnpm v9 and the workspace file created for v10 (without packages field) would fail with ERR_PNPM_INVALID_WORKSPACE_CONFIGURATION - Remove unknown version test since the fallback to pnpm --version correctly detects the system pnpm version - Only check for package.json and pnpm-workspace.yaml existence since we're skipping installation

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…t flag - Use Number.isNaN instead of isNaN since majorVersion is already a number - Remove --quiet flag from pnpm --version as it's not a documented flag (pnpm --version already outputs minimal output, and stderr is ignored)

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Add --silent flag as a precaution since pnpm --version output is not guaranteed to be machine readable. The --silent flag is a documented pnpm option that sets loglevel to silent.

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test(create-next-app): add tests for pnpm v9/v10 workspace.yaml behavior

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Add --silent flag as a precaution since pnpm --version output is not guaranteed to be machine readable. The --silent flag is a documented pnpm option that sets loglevel to silent.

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