Clarify how this is different to `pnpm deploy`

[scullionw]

with pnpm deploy you can materialize the project into a subfolder like functions/.deploy and then point the firebase.json deploy to that

this feels similar?

[0x80]

I think the last time I looked at it was the "--legacy" implementation. Still, I just tried it with injectWorkspacePackages: true and looking at the package.json and pnpm-lock.yaml files, I see a lot of absolute paths pointing to directories on my local machine, so I don't know how you're going to deploy this to Firebase.

Did you get it working for a Firebase deployment, and can you provide an example repo?

The isolate process doesn't install anything. It takes the built output of all packages to form a self-contained structure (which itself functions as a pnpm workspace / monorepo), so that everything related to the target can be found and installed in something like a cloud build pipeline.