Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system

Re:Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system by bovermyer on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:20PM (#34887541)

The main repository is a single page app that's mostly Typescript compiled via Svelte down to a JavaScript bundle.

Most of that repository is a series of modules in their own directories (e.g., "src/modules/character").

The second repository is a Node.js API. The majority of its functionality comes from one of the modules from the first repository that I copy in its entirety to the other repository whenever I change it.

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Re:Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system by mileswjohnson on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:48PM (#34887959)

Gotcha. While moon doesn't solve this directly, you do have a few options here:

- Use git submodules. Have the node repo have a submodule on the app repo.

- Publish the shared code to a private registry (like github's package registry), and pull it in as an npm package.

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Re:Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system by iskela on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:57PM (#34888109)

You should check git submodules out. Basically you could have your api-repo checkout certain commit from the spa-repo to a folder in the project root and reference the module reltive to that path.

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Re:Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system by Aeolun on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:47PM (#34888808)

Could you add the character module as a new package, the import it in the server with something like “char-package”: “file:../../client/modules/character”?

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