I'm trying to get a pre-commit check to run a command (in npm) not in the root of the git repository (I have a folder "frontend" that contains the npm installation). This sounds trivial, but so far I have found no pre-commit package that supports this directly. I came up with a workaround, where pre-commit launches a script, then the script makes a change of directory and then it runs the command, but I would like something more direct. Pre-commit packages I have tried:
None of these seem to support this directly
Any alternative packages to these would be welcome, or perhaps if I missed a setting in these somewhere.
A similar question was asked here for husky, but the answer again relied on a shell script: Husky npm package Pre-Commit hook not working in sub directory repository
UPDATE: Following comments, I will revise the emphasis of this question. I would really like to find out how to do this in one the three options I specified, although other solutions are welcome.
Found a solution to this problem with the module Husky:
By design, husky install must be run in the same directory as .git, but you can change directory during prepare script and pass a subdirectory. Assuming your subdirectory is frontend:
// package.json
{
"scripts": {
"prepare": "cd .. && husky install frontend/.husky"
}
}
In your hooks, you'll also need to change directory:
# .husky/pre-commit
# ...
cd frontend
npm run command
Solution from the husky documentation: https://typicode.github.io/husky/#/?id=custom-directory