Dmv

This project demonstrates how to build a monorepo of dependent components that are installed as a single package. It builds a library of components similar to Angular Material.

Most of the nx commands work as expected with the exception of those that are dependent the dep-graph. Commands that use affected don't work either.

Building The Library

To build the component library for distribution run

npm run build-libs

This triggers a sequence of build scripts in the package.json to build the components in their order of dependencies.

Consuming The Library

This library builds the set of components that are installed using a form like

npm install @namespace/library

This installs the collection of components in the project.

Angular Material supports 2 styles of importing into applications:

import { CoreModule } from '@dmv/demo'`
import { CoreModule } from '@dmv/demo/core'

This repo supports the latter style only.

Project Structure and Building

In nx parlance, a library is a unit of dependency and build which can include one or more angular components.

In this instance, we treat and think of the nx library as a component.

Building the component for distribution is a matter of configuring the ng-packagr control files.

Configure Component ng-package.json

Define the destination based on the desired distribution package structure:

  "dest": "../../dist/@dmv/demo/button",

The umdId provides the id for the module. The map of umdModuleIds keeps the complier from guessing about the dependencies:

    "umdId": "dmv.button",
    "umdModuleIds": {
      "@dmv/demo/core": "dmv.core",
      "@dmv/demo/link": "dmv.link"
    }

Configure Component package.json

The main thing to configure here is the component name including the npmjs namespace:

  "name": "@dmv/demo/button",

Configure Component tsconfig.lib.json

When a component is built it reads the source for the component from the src/libs path. The dependencies for the component must be resolved from the previously built components. To enable this we need to add the path to the compiler options:

  "compilerOptions": {
    ...
    "paths": {
      "@dmv/*": ["dist/@dmv/*"]
    }
  },

Configure Repo tsconfig.json

In order for Visual Studio Code to resolve the dependencies we need to configure the components in the project level tsconfig.json

  "compilerOptions": {
    ...
    "paths": {
      "@dmv/demo/core": ["libs/core/src/index.ts"],
      "@dmv/demo/button": ["libs/button/src/index.ts"],
      "@dmv/demo/link": ["libs/link/src/index.ts"]
    }
  },