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feels more like an XY problem here, can you provide the error you get without any custom railpack config, then we can go from there

the error I get without railpack is an error from my application telling that it can't find a requested file

postinstall is a script that runs automatically (by pnpm/npm) when it finishes installing deps

I even added some ls to make sure that it's doing that.

what service in what env?

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i assume this works on nixpacks?

yeah the install command works

but im guessing that nixpacks includes the entire app code

then i think i should tag in jr to give the advice here

railpack does not to improve the stage cache hit and that makes sense IMO

@jr - when you have a moment, could you give a look into this

link for ref:

What does your package.json look like? There is some logic in Railpack to include all the source files if postinstall is detected so ideally you don't have to have any config in this case. Oh it looks like a monorepo?

This should work for you though (note the "…" to indicate that you want to append to the existing install inputs)

{
  "$schema": "https://schema.railpack.com",
  "steps": {
    "install": {
      "inputs": ["...", { "local": true, "include": ["apps/docs/content"] }]
    }
  }
}

im using turborepo, maybe it only checks on the package.json at root?

the postinstall is at an app

ah yeah that will do it. Railpack can check that. I'll make a note to add that

it looks like you got it working?

i'll try that config you sent me

pro tip: if you are debugging a railpack config file, you can expand the "Successfully prepare…" build log to see the full build plan that was generated

you can also likely use

{
  "$schema": "https://schema.railpack.com",
  "steps": {
    "install": {
      "commands": [{"src": "apps/docs/content", "dest": "apps/docs/content" }, "..."]
    }
  }
}

or also just add a "postinstall": "echo noop" to the root package.json until it is fixed in railpack

thanks now it went through! im getting another error but now thats my code's fault 😭

unfortunatley railpack can't fix that yet :/
but glad the build is working better. if you have any other feedback about the railpack xp or config file please let us know in this thread

and btw, maybe the error should be better than "Install inputs must be an image or step input".
I had no idea that I had to include the default inputs

very good point

the config side of things is still a bit up in the air (hence the warning at the top of the build). Trying to balance low level control to optimize image size and build speed, with high level convience

!s