Monorepo Deploy

Does anyone have experience with monorepo deploy?

I have nest.js back that deploys fine, and vite react that I need proxy for, so I am trying out caddy and the config I found on the official file. But something is not working as intended since caddy is not serving front. How can I add command to just serve the front, and leave backend to work as is?

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2 years ago

please share your repo



2 years ago

shared monorepo?


what do you mean?


2 years ago

is this a shared monorepo?


oh, yes it is shared monorepo


2 years ago

does the frontend actually use exports from other packages in the repo?


yes, it uses types defined in the backend


2 years ago

then you would not want to set a root directory


yeah, I do not use root directory, I am defining custom build commands. My idea was to somehow install caddy without disturbing backend, and then just serve frontend via caddy, backend is fine as it is


2 years ago

yes you do

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yeah, that was a failed experiment 😄


I tried that, since other approach did not work


2 years ago

right so please remove 🙂


removed


2 years ago

you also don't wan't to use cd in build or start commands, if you end up using cd in such a senario, it is likely the incorrect solution


I will write scripts in root package.json to handle this


2 years ago

looks like you already have the script needed to build the frontend build:fe


created scripts to build from root folder


now all 3 services are running from root without cd


2 years ago

awsome, now you have to point nixpacks to the config file using a NIXPACKS_CONFIG_FILE service variable, and have a start script to start caddy


this would help me run custom nixpack for frontend only?


2 years ago

yes


aight, let me try it


cmds = [

'caddy fmt --overwrite ./Caddyfile',

] # format the Caddyfile to fix any formatting inconsistencies

this step fails, even though nixpack is in the same folder. I have tried writing just caddyfile. Should I put full path from root, something like apps/frontend/Caddyfile?


2 years ago

yeah you will need the full path


worked so far, I now get

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but I assume I can figure it out from here, thanks!


2 years ago

awesome!


2 years ago

!s


Status changed to Solved brody over 1 year ago


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