altv-yarn-workspace-starter

A baseline structure to start using yarn workspaces to build resources for a server.

Prerequisites

• altv-server.exe & js-module / js-bytecode-module (Download (altv.mp))

  Adjust resource manifests as neccesary.

• npm i -g yarn

Creating a new resource within the workspace

1. Copy the template-js / template-ts folder.
2. Rename the folder, and give it the same name in the package.json.
3. Run start.sh to start the server.

Edge-cases

• When starting the server, run yarn workspaces run build.

  If this does not work, the npm alternative has been provided as a comment.

• If yarn is the primary motivator to use this template, all workspace resources must be given a name, version and build script (even if the script is exit 0, as demonstrated in the common resource).
• Use yarn add -W <pkg> when adding packages to the root manifest.

Setting up with TypeScript

1. Run yarn add -D typescript adding it to the base workspace manifest.
2. In any resources that are to use typescript, run

Additional notes

While this does server to be the outline of a server assembly, it does not come anywhere close to supporting 'hot loading' - which altv-esbuild can already achieve. This starter structure attempts to be as close to the intented production functionality of AltV's framework without listening for changes or restarting the server.

Internal resources will not transfer type data (at least, not for now).

Command ecosystem equivelents

npm run <script> commands can have --if-present added at the end to safely exit without a fuss, yarn does not have this until its v2 release (Maintainer comment on yarnpkg/yarn#6894).

Decisions on using npm or yarn does not impede core functionality if it is only targeting scripts.

Action	npm	yarn
Install / refresh for all	npm i --ws	yarn
Install for one	npm i <pkg> -w=<name>	yarn workspace <name> add <pkg>
Remove for one	npm remove <pkg> -w=<name>	yarn workspace <name> remove <pkg>
Install / Remove for root	npm install/remove <pkg>	yarn add/remove <pkg> -W
Run for all	npm run <script> --ws [--if-present]	yarn workspaces run <script>
Run for one	npm run <script> -w=<name> [--if-present]	yarn workspace <name> run <script>
Workspace info	Unknown	yarn workspaces info
Run binary for all	npm exec --ws -c <cmd> [args...] / npx ...	yarn workspaces run <cmd> [args...]
Run binary for one	npm exec -w=<name> -c <cmd> [args...] / npx ...	yarn workspace <name> run <cmd> [args...]

~/node_module/.bin/* scripts can also be run from yarn workspaces run <bin> - which will run from the bin folder within the workspace.

Dependency management

Depencendies of any kind can be specified in the root manifest, or in any workspace manifest. All packages will be loaded into the root node_modules folder for universal management (while using yarn).

Once a package manager is chosen (npm, yarn), it is important to remain with that package manager as only it can best read its own manifests - 3rd party manifests to NPMs native implementation with node can read the package-lock file created by its cli, but are usually much slower at converting to their own format.

Manifests have been setup with the basic dependencies to ensure TypeScript and Intellisense are satisfied, should you end up using them.

Build tasks

For TypeScript, Babel, etc. compilers

If you are having trouble with files not being removed on a build task, add the rimraf cli package and prepend each build script with rimraf ./dist && (or whatever the build target is set to) or prepend npx on top of that to avoid adding it as an immediate dependency.