VSCode Multiple-Folder Workspace Search references - visual-studio-code

Question

Going through a project that start to be quite huge, we've got a workspace with 10+ folders.
Into those 10+ folders we have 9 folders that have the same code base in Node.js & the 10th one that is a private NPM package that we build and that all 9 others rely on.
We're trying to make things easier for all the devs to find some other usage of a function they want to explore and for that, we wanted to be able to find some function references / implementations across all the folders of the workspace.
For instance, if I go in one of the folder, in one of the source file :
and I right-click on the authorize method that is custom and implemented into the NPM private package. If I look up for References I'll get results like this :
But those are only the result of the reference of this method into this folder and not into others project that also use this express middleware.
You can see that I also get the result of the dist folder of the NPM package which seems logical but also seems to be the problem that I am facing.
I don't really know what can also be useful so feel free to ask me any kind of content and find attached the workspace configuration :
{
"folders": [
{
"name": "Docs",
"path": "./repositories/Docs"
},
{
"name": "Frontend",
"path": "./repositories/project_pwa"
},
{
"name": "Service A",
"path": "./repositories/project_A"
},
{
"name": "Service B",
"path": "./repositories/project_B"
},
{
"name": "Project C",
"path": "./repositories/project_C"
},
{
"name": "Project D",
"path": "./repositories/project_D"
},
{
"name": "Project E",
"path": "./repositories/project_E"
},
{
"name": "Project F",
"path": "./repositories/project_F"
},
{
"name": "Project G",
"path": "./repositories/project_G"
},
{
"name": "Project H",
"path": "./repositories/project_H"
},
{
"name": "project I",
"path": "./repositories/project_I"
},
{
"name": "Project J",
"path": "./repositories/project_J"
},
{
"name": "Project K",
"path": "./repositories/project_K"
},
{
"path": "./repositories/project_L",
"name": "Project L"
},
{
"path": ".",
"name": "Master"
}
],
"settings": {
"markdown.extension.print.imgToBase64": true,
"editor.multiCursorModifier": "alt",
"editor.renderWhitespace": "boundary",
"editor.wordWrap": "on",
"diffEditor.ignoreTrimWhitespace": false,
"git.autofetch": true,
"markdown.extension.print.absoluteImgPath": false,
"markdown.extension.print.validateUrls": false,
"markdown.extension.toc.levels": "2..6",
"vsintellicode.modify.editor.suggestSelection": "automaticallyOverrodeDefaultValue",
"files.exclude": {
"node_modules": true,
"dist": true,
"repositories": true
},
"editor.defaultFormatter": "dbaeumer.vscode-eslint",
"[javascript]": {
"editor.defaultFormatter": "dbaeumer.vscode-eslint"
},
"[jsonc]": {
"editor.defaultFormatter": "vscode.json-language-features"
},
"editor.tabSize": 2,
},
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"ms-vscode.references-view",
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