Automatically add javascript SPAs

What should we add or change to make your life better?

It would be really cool if Tye recognised javascript SPAs (e.g. React-frontends) that are part of the folder structure. Tye would include them when you use tye run and display them in the dashboard.

Currently I would either create a Dockerfile to generate an image and instruct Tye to use it or run “npm start” and “tye run” simultaneously while adding an ingress to tye.yaml and configure the frontend to use it. If I was a beginner I would have loved to have Tye do this for me.

Why is this important to you?

Lots of projects I hear about from colleagues use different .NET backend services together with a React/Angular/Vue frontend. These would be deployed on the same cluster as part of the microservice-project. Including SPAs to tye would take away further difficulty for newcomers.

[onionhammer]

Unless it was part of the .NET application itself or there was a convention that > 90% of people use for their front end apps that was pretty much de-factor, automatic discovery is a losing battle. It woudl be much easier to support calling npm start on a declared folder with package.json though.

Being able to call ‘npm start’ or some NPM command as a tye service would be tremendous

[tebeco]

Please concider that teams just do not open Visual Studio for SPA (they don’t want to)

They higthly uses VsCode and just “Open Folder” That’s why simply relying on the presence of the package.json should be concidered as a “first citizen”

Also it’s probably possible to also look for vsproj or anything else. For example, as of today the tye init adds litereally everything that can starts, well that would just be “one more entry” 😄