Railway•3mo ago

trouble working with npm workspaces

Hey I'm working in a new pattern than usual which is a monorepo using npm workspaces My build failed after i introduced a shared package and it says error TS2307: Cannot find module '@local/keylib' or its corresponding type declarations. I am using the root directory config in railway. Does that throw out the code outside from workspace? This could be why it can't reference code from other workspaces. Any help?

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Percy•3mo ago

Project ID: cd11aa3e-055b-41a8-ba34-f9827ba92cfb

croissant•3mo ago

cd11aa3e-055b-41a8-ba34-f9827ba92cfb

Brody•3mo ago

you are absolutely correct, only the set directory is copied, for packages that share code or types you wouldn't want to set a root directory

croissant•3mo ago

I see, i'll try adding custom config in my dockerfiles Would watch path be affected in any way? I don't want useless unchanged deploys

Brody•3mo ago

they shouldn't

croissant•3mo ago

Aight I didn't think this through. Is this still possible

ROOT
- core-service
      - Dockerfile

- keymanager-service
      - Dockerfile

- shared-API-clients
      - keyclient
            - keyclient.ts

ROOT
- core-service
      - Dockerfile

- keymanager-service
      - Dockerfile

- shared-API-clients
      - keyclient
            - keyclient.ts

I want to use the keyclient as my shared library core-service and keymanager-service are seperate railway services Will railway be able to support a monorepo structure like this or should i break it up

Brody•3mo ago

yeah seems fine to me, keep the root directory as the root and set the location to the dockerfiles via the service variable https://docs.railway.app/reference/variables#user-provided-configuration-variables

croissant•3mo ago

Thanks!

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