[Bug]: Component tests not collecting coverage from components situated in folders above or at the same level of the playwright project

[GeneratorX16]

Version

1.50.0

Steps to reproduce

1. Clone my repo at https://github.com/GeneratorX16/playwright-component-test-issue/tree/main
2. cd into component-tests and run npm install
3. cd into my-react-app and run npm install
4. cd into component-tests
5. Run npm run test-ct (may give wrong results the first time, then run again)
6. To generate nyc output for code coverage report, run npx nyc report --reporter=text

Expected behavior

I expect it to collect coverage from the components in my-react-app too.

Actual behavior

It is collecting coverage only from the components inside the playwright project. I want it to collect coverage from other directories too.

Additional context

I have been tasked to run component tests on a component library which is internal to us. I want to have minimum interference with their projects and directory, so I cannot place tests inside the place where their components exist. I can do this at runtime for just tests, but that is a lot of grunt work and not an efficient workflow. The component tests work correctly, but I am not at all able to collect overage of the components that they have developed.

I have followed the steps from the recommended repo https://github.com/mxschmitt/playwright-test-coverage/tree/ct-react-vite?tab=readme-ov-file#use-istanbul-coverage-collection-with-playwright-component-testing-react

The project uses react17 and @playwright/experimental-ct-react17.

This is what my project structure looks like:

Root
|_______Main-Components
               |__componentA
               |__componentB...
|_______playwright Component Testing Project
               |_wrapper-component-folder
               |_tests

This wa, it only collects coverage from the wrapper-components-folder, instead of the Main-Components.
Changing the nyc config in the vite-pugin-istabul also has no effect.
I cannot upgrade node or npm to a version above the 16.20.2
Can you recommend me any way to do this ?

Environment

System: 
 OS: Linux 5.15 Amazon Linux 2
 CPU: (4) x64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8175M CPU @ 2.50GHz
 Container: Yes
Binaries:
 Node: 16.20.2
 Yarn: 1.22.22
 npm: 8.19.4
npmPackages:
 @playwright/experimental-ct-react17: ^1.49.0 => 1.50.0