Dockerfile Error: Cannot find module '/app/packages/lib/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc'

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Summary

I have this dockerfile

FROM node:22-alpine AS base

# The web Dockerfile is copy-pasted into our main docs at /docs/handbook/deploying-with-docker.
# Make sure you update this Dockerfile, the Dockerfile in the web workspace and copy that over to Dockerfile in the docs.


# install pnpm
RUN wget -qO /bin/pnpm "https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/latest/download/pnpm-linuxstatic-x64" && chmod +x /bin/pnpm

# Configure pnpm global
ENV PNPM_HOME=/pnpm
ENV PATH=$PATH:$PNPM_HOME
RUN corepack enable

RUN pnpm add -g turbo

FROM base AS builder
# Check https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/tree/b4117f9333da4138b03a546ec926ef50a31506c3#nodealpine to understand why libc6-compat might be needed.
RUN apk update
RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat
# Set working directory
WORKDIR /app
COPY ./ .
RUN turbo prune web --docker


RUN ls -la /app/out

# RUN ls /app/out && sleep 60

# Add lockfile and package.json's of isolated subworkspace
FROM base AS installer
RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache libc6-compat
WORKDIR /app

# First install dependencies (as they change less often)
COPY --from=builder /app/out/json/ .
COPY --from=builder /app/out/pnpm-lock.yaml /app/pnpm-lock.yaml
COPY --from=builder /app/out/pnpm-workspace.yaml /app/pnpm-workspace.yaml 

RUN ls -la /app

RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pnpm,target=/pnpm/store pnpm install --config.shamefully-hoist=true --config.node-linker=hoisted deploy --filter="web" --prod standalone

# Build the project and its dependencies
COPY --from=builder /app/out/full/ .
COPY turbo.json turbo.json

# Uncomment and use build args to enable remote caching
# ARG TURBO_TEAM
# ENV TURBO_TEAM=$TURBO_TEAM

# ARG TURBO_TOKEN
# ENV TURBO_TOKEN=$TURBO_TOKEN

RUN ls -la /app/packages/lib/node_modules/

RUN pnpm build --filter=web...

FROM base AS runner
WORKDIR /app

# Don't run production as root
RUN addgroup --system --gid 1001 nodejs
RUN adduser --system --uid 1001 nextjs
USER nextjs


# Automatically leverage output traces to reduce image size
# https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/output-file-tracing
COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/.next/standalone ./
COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/.next/static ./apps/web/.next/static
COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/public ./apps/web/public

CMD node apps/web/server.js

But no matter what I do I end up with "Error: Cannot find module '/app/packages/lib/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc'"
in the build step.

RUN ls -la /app/packages/lib/node_modules/
#27 0.170 total 16
#27 0.170 drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root          4096 Oct 31 22:09 .
#27 0.170 drwxrwxr-x    1 root     root          4096 Oct 31 22:09 ..
#27 0.170 drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Oct 31 22:09 .bin
#27 0.170 drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Oct 31 22:09 @repo

typescript indeed does not seem to be in the node_modules

Additional information

The build works fine if I do it on my computer
packages/lib/package.json has a dev dependency for typescript and the build script does

"build": "tsc"

I've also tried many variations of the install such as

RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pnpm,target=/pnpm/store pnpm install --frozen-lockfile

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Using

RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pnpm,target=/pnpm/store pnpm install --frozen-lockfile -r

With a .gitignore at root specifying

**/node_modules

And having typescript as a ROOT dev dependency works.
This is interesting as I don't need that in the host machine. Perhaps I have typescript installed globally or something.

Results in a working setup.

Resulting working setup:

FROM node:22-alpine AS base

# install pnpm
RUN wget -qO /bin/pnpm "https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/latest/download/pnpm-linuxstatic-x64" && chmod +x /bin/pnpm

# Configure pnpm global
ENV PNPM_HOME=/pnpm
ENV PATH=$PATH:$PNPM_HOME
RUN corepack enable

RUN pnpm add -g turbo

FROM base AS builder
# Check https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/tree/b4117f9333da4138b03a546ec926ef50a31506c3#nodealpine to understand why libc6-compat might be needed.
RUN apk update
RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat
# Set working directory
WORKDIR /app
COPY ./ .

RUN turbo prune web --docker

# Add lockfile and package.json's of isolated subworkspace
FROM base AS installer
RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache libc6-compat
WORKDIR /app

# First install dependencies (as they change less often)
COPY --from=builder /app/out/json/ .
COPY --from=builder /app/out/pnpm-lock.yaml /app/pnpm-lock.yaml
COPY --from=builder /app/out/pnpm-workspace.yaml /app/pnpm-workspace.yaml 

RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pnpm,target=/pnpm/store pnpm install --frozen-lockfile -r


# Build the project and its dependencies
COPY --from=builder /app/out/full/ .
COPY turbo.json turbo.json

# Uncomment and use build args to enable remote caching
# ARG TURBO_TEAM
# ENV TURBO_TEAM=$TURBO_TEAM

# ARG TURBO_TOKEN
# ENV TURBO_TOKEN=$TURBO_TOKEN

RUN pnpm build --filter=web...

FROM base AS runner
WORKDIR /app

# Don't run production as root
RUN addgroup --system --gid 1001 nodejs
RUN adduser --system --uid 1001 nextjs
USER nextjs


# Automatically leverage output traces to reduce image size
# https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/output-file-tracing
COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/.next/standalone ./
COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/.next/static ./apps/web/.next/static
COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/public ./apps/web/public

CMD node apps/web/server.js

I hope someone scouring the internet having the same problem can use this.