Include Yarn workspace package in api/ babel

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Hi!

I have some “common” typescript packages in packages/* that I’d like to include in the api/ build/“rw dev” babel processing.

packages/* may be used by api/, web/, … - and we’d like to transpile target to be the same, as they different between api/web/…

Also, we’d like changes made to these common packages to affect the live reloading on api/ (not too concerned about web/)

We’re in RW 6.6.4, using typescript
I’ve created the file api/babel.config.js

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Attempt 1:

Edit: node_modules/@redwoodjs/babel-config/dist/api.js

L153 add:

babelrcRoots: [
  '.',
  './packages/*',
],

Error: Cannot find module '@my-corp/common/lib/types'

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tsconfig.json has the following line:

"include": ["web/**/*", "api/**/*", "scripts/**/*", "packages/**/*"],

And api/tsconfig.json:

...
"../packages/**/*",
...
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I was able to transpile files outside of api/ by updating
[redwood/packages/internal/src/files.ts] L66 (findWebFiles)

Adding something like this (in my local node_modules):

  const basePath = (0, _projectConfig.getPaths)().base;
  const pkgFiles = _fastGlob.default.sync('packages/**/*.ts', {
    basePath,
    absolute: true,
    ignore: ignoreApiFiles
  });

  return [...files, ...pkgFiles];

This causes a bunch of issues:

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prebuild and dist normally have all the api files on those directories, not in the api directory.
e.g. used to be prebuild/*, but now it’s prebuild/api/*

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I think the best option will be to setup a separate build step.
And that step could have “watch” if required

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Glad you were able to find a solution!

This topic is a bit outside my area of expertise so am going to mention to ten rest of the team to see if they have any ideas or suggestions.

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For anyone who’s hit this issue and want a bit of an explanation of what’s going on, here’s the deal:

  • Files to be processed/transpiled by babel/typescript are hard-coded in the redwood/packages/internal/src/files.ts
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