Guidance on current usage with Lerna and Yarn Workspaces?

I am currently setting up a fresh monorepo structure using Lerna and TSDX to build out a component library.

I have read and followed the various links related to #122 but wanted to check if there is anything to consider when using TSDX inside a lerna monorepo before some kind of official monorepo template (might) land.

My current thinking is to:

1. Setup the monorepo via lerna as normal
2. Setup the yarn workspaces integration with lerna
3. Add tsdx as a devDependency at the root level
4. Run npx tsdx create mylib-package-a for each package inside the packages/* folder
5. Add npm scripts at the root level that use lerna run [flags] to either start, watch, test or build each individual package folder as one command.

Is that roughly the right approach for using TSDX inside a monorepo structure?

[pcowgill]

I think there’s room for a separate init config for tsdx that configures a lerna-friendly version of a tsdx project. lerna and monorepos are common enough that a feature like this will help a lot with adoption of this lib.

I’ve been following roughly this approach, but needing to remember to modify a few of the instructions given that I’m using tsdx rather than tsc directly. And doing this much tsconfig wrangling sort of defaults the purpose of using tsdx.

[slorber]

Hey,

To me, the best is to build once, and then run watch in --parallel with the --noClean option.

Problem is that currently, the watcher is only looking for changes in ./src, so your symlinks will not be watched (+ they might be hoisted).

https://github.com/jaredpalmer/tsdx/blob/b21d7af1ae87f3f1f1324e7ad07671dde630fed0/src/index.ts#L328

Will see if I can send a PR for that, but was not very successful with patch-package 😕