Migrate Package to Local Dist Build

You are migrating an Nx monorepo package from building to ../../dist/packages/<name> to building locally to packages/<name>/dist/. This matches the pattern already used by nx and devkit.

Argument

The user provides a package name (e.g., js, webpack, angular). The package lives at packages/<name>/.

Steps

0. Preflight: check workspace:* deps for unmigrated packages

Read packages/<name>/package.json and list every workspace:* dep (in dependencies, devDependencies, peerDependencies).

For each such dep, look at the target package's project.json. If it does not override release.version.manifestRootsToUpdate to ["packages/{projectName}"], that target package is still on the old layout. You must migrate those packages too (apply this skill to each), in the same PR.

Why: With preserveLocalDependencyProtocols: true (the new pattern), nx release version does not substitute workspace:* in your manifest. At publish time, pnpm resolves workspace:* by reading the target's source packages/<dep>/package.json. The default manifestRootsToUpdate: ["dist/packages/{projectName}"] only bumps the dist copy, so pnpm picks up the unbumped source 0.0.1 and publishes your package with a dep on a version that does not exist in the registry. Local registry installs then fail with ERR_PNPM_NO_MATCHING_VERSION.

A workspace:* dep on a still-on-old-layout package is a hard blocker — migrate it before continuing.