How to install only dependencies for one package from frozen lockfile

[adamsuskin]

I'm using PNPM workspaces and struggling to set up CI the way I expect things to work (but if I'm wrong, please tell me!). Let's say I have packages:

• server (depends on shared)
• client (depends on shared)
• shared

In my CI pipeline step, I am trying to build just server, and not client. I am making a docker image, so I copy the lockfile and the contents of the server package (and the already-built shared artifact) into the docker workspace. Then, I try to run pnpm install --frozen-lockfile and get a lockfile out of sync error that fails, presumably because the server package.json doesn't match the workspace lockfile.

Is there a way to have pnpm install --frozen-lockfile disregard if there are additional entries in the lockfile, even if they aren't present in a package.json? Or am I thinking about something the wrong way?

[adamsuskin]

I think this is what the deploy command is for.