addPassthroughCopy with symLinks not working

[johanlef]

I have a submodule which contains templates, css and assets shared by multiple 11ty projects. I symlink the assets I need from the submodule into the assets directory in the root. This assets folder should be copied to _site with addPassthroughCopy('assets') in my .eleventy.js file. Note: I do not use an .eleventyignore file and the sass from the submodule is processed without issues.

Unfortunately, only the files in assets which are not symlinks are copied to the _site directory. How can I tell eleventy to also passthrough my symlinked directories?

assets:
  fonts # symlink to /common/fonts
  logos # symlink to /common/logos
  scripts # normal directory
_site:
  assets:
    scripts # fonts, logos dirs are missing after build
common:
  fonts
  logos
  sass
...

I use eleventy v0.7.1

[zachleat]

Ah interesting. Eleventy uses recursive-copy for passthrough copy and it does not include symlinks by default.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/recursive-copy#usage

This will require exposing an option to enable this (or maybe configure all of the recursive copy options, not sure).

[zachleat]

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[ckot]

this would be a nice feature. is there any sort of hack/workaround I could use in the meantime?

[milahu]

still an issue. i use pnpm to manage node_modules, so for example
node_modules/@fontsource/noto-sans is a symlink to
node_modules/.pnpm/@fontsource/noto-sans@4.2.2/node_modules/@fontsource/noto-sans
and running eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy("node_modules/@fontsource/noto-sans") will copy zero files

[raxod502]

An easy workaround, add this to .eleventy.js to cause symlinks to be resolved when copying static files:

const TemplatePassthrough = require("@11ty/eleventy/src/TemplatePassthrough");
const origCopy = TemplatePassthrough.prototype.copy;
TemplatePassthrough.prototype.copy = function (src, dest, copyOptions) {
  return origCopy.bind(this)(src, dest, { ...copyOptions, expand: true });
};

[tremby]

That looks very susceptible to code rot.

[raxod502]

I'm very open to a better solution, please let me know if you have one!

[milahu]

see #1686

[raxod502]

Ah, well, naturally, but until that gets reviewed and merged, I think we're stuck with workarounds like the one I posted.

[milahu]

until that gets reviewed and merged, I think we're stuck

to solve this hostage situation, someone invented patch-package
which also is unmaintained (oh the irony) but it works

sample use in my alchi-book/patches

[zachleat]

PR is merged, will ship with 2.0.0-canary.12

Thanks!