Sharing a typescript library in a monorepo

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Solution 1:

with Lerna

you can use workspace and Lerna

yarn workspace & lerna


├── README.md
├── lerna.json
├── package.json
├── packages
│   ├── pdf
│   │   ├── package.json   /*  "shared-ts": "^1.0.0" */
│   │   └──  src
│   ├── frontend
│   │   ├── package.json
│   │   └── src
│   ├── mobile
│   │   ├── package.json
│   │   └── src
│   ├── shared-ts
│   │   ├── package.json
│   │   └──  src
├── tsconfig.json
└── yarn.lock

here is an example repo

here you can see x-cli is getting shared x-core

Solution 2:

without Lerna

you can use mtsl package which enables us to make tangible symlinks. you can install this package globally

npm install -g mtsl

then you just need to start to separate these three commands in terminal.

mtsl startwithoutadd -s path_of_project/packages/shared-ts -d path_of_project/packages/pdf/node_modules/shared-ts

mtsl startwithoutadd -s path_of_project/packages/shared-ts -d path_of_project/packages/frontend/node_modules/shared-ts

mtsl startwithoutadd -s path_of_project/packages/shared-ts -d path_of_project/packages/mobile/node_modules/shared-ts

Note don’t stop this three watcher. after testing, you can make single command from the package.json script

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