Cannot provide siteDir to external commands

[ouadie-lahdioui]

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• I have read the Contributing Guidelines on issues.

Prerequisites

• I'm using the latest version of Docusaurus.
• I have tried the npm run clear or yarn clear command.
• I have tried rm -rf node_modules yarn.lock package-lock.json and re-installing packages.
• I have tried creating a repro with https://new.docusaurus.io.
• I have read the console error message carefully (if applicable).

Description

Hi All,

All internal Docusaurus commands accept the siteDir parameter in addition to other options:

yar docusaurus serve [options] [siteDir]
yar docusaurus clear [options] [siteDir]
...

That provides the possibility to execute internal commands from another directory. For example, considering the following project organization:

my-app/
|-- package.json
|-- docs/
│  |-- docusaurus.config.js

Internal commands can be executed directly from my-app, for example: yarn docusaurus serve -p 8081 docs

Whats wrong?

I cannot execute external command docs:version directly from my-app

yarn docusaurus docs:version 1  --> ❌ Not working
yarn docusaurus docs:version 1 docs --> ❌ Not working
yarn docusaurus docs:version docs 1 --> ❌ Not working
yarn docusaurus docs:version 1 --config docs/docusaurus.config.js  --> ❌ Not working

Reproducible demo

No response

Steps to reproduce

1. yarn install
2. yarn docusaurus docs:version 1

Expected behavior

[SUCCESS] [docs]: version 1 created!

Actual behavior

[ERROR] No config file found.
[INFO] Expected one of:

• docusaurus.config.js
• docusaurus.config.cjs
  You can provide a custom config path with the --config option.
  /my-app/node_modules/@docusaurus/core/lib/server/config.js:25
  throw new Error();
  ^

Your environment

• Docusaurus version used: 2.3.1
• Environment name and version: Node v18
• Operating system and version: MacOS Montery 12.3

Self-service

• I'd be willing to fix this bug myself.

[Josh-Cena]

Duplicate of #8903