Official way to share Typescript models with frontend?

Issue type: [X ] question [ X] documentation issue

TypeORM version: [X ] latest

Hi, first off thanks for this library, it’s awesome so far.

I did run into the issue here and saw there was some deliberation about how to best share models between frontend and backend in a typescript project. I tried to find out what the final “recommended” approach was but I haven’t been able to find it anywhere. What’s the best way to accomplish this?

[cyphercider]

@tomspeak , I’m actually planning to publish a boilerplate full stack typescript application (node / typescript / react / mobx) in a monorepo using the approach I described above. It’s not ready yet, but I’ll link here when it is.

[cyphercider]

Hi @DylanSp ,

All of my projects are in a monorepo, in sibling directories as you mention. They each have their own package.json to track their own external dependencies, but module imports are direct to the siblings’ code. I use the tsconfig.json “extends” option so that all sibling packages extend a tsconfig.base.json file. Then I use typescript’s path mapping to import from siblings without relative paths becoming unmanageable.

I tried to use Lerna to manage dependencies previously, but so far, the vanilla tsconfig extend + path mapping approach has worked better for both my workflow and my editor (VS Code) tooling.