fix: improve run command resilience, skip misconfigured services (#17)

bin/index.js

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 import { Command } from 'commander';
 import chalk from 'chalk';
+
 import { scaffoldMonorepo, addService, scaffoldPlugin } from './lib/scaffold.js';
 import { runDev } from './lib/dev.js';
 
 const program = new Command();
 
+
 program
   .name('create-polyglot')
   .description('Scaffold a polyglot microservice monorepo');

bin/lib/dev.js

@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ export async function runDev({ docker=false } = {}) {
   const cfg = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(configPath, 'utf-8'));
   const servicesDir = path.join(cwd, 'services');
   if (!fs.existsSync(servicesDir)) {
-    console.error(chalk.red('services/ directory not found.'));
-    process.exit(1);
-  }
+  console.log(chalk.yellow('⚠️  services/ directory not found. No local services will be started.'));
+  //no return - continue to check cfg.services
+}
   if (docker) {
     console.log(chalk.cyan('🛳  Starting via docker compose...'));
     const compose = spawn('docker', ['compose', 'up', '--build'], { stdio: 'inherit' });
@@ -53,20 +53,44 @@ export async function runDev({ docker=false } = {}) {
   console.log(chalk.cyan('🚀 Starting services locally (best effort)...'));
   const procs = [];
   const healthPromises = [];
+
+if (fs.existsSync(servicesDir)) {
   for (const svc of cfg.services) {
     const svcPath = path.join(cwd, svc.path);
+
     if (!fs.existsSync(svcPath)) continue;
     // Only auto-run node & frontend services (others require language runtime dev tasks)
     if (!['node','frontend'].includes(svc.type)) continue;
+
     const pkgPath = path.join(svcPath, 'package.json');
-    if (!fs.existsSync(pkgPath)) continue;
-    let pkg;
-    try { pkg = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(pkgPath,'utf-8')); } catch { continue; }
-    if (!pkg.scripts || !pkg.scripts.dev) continue;
-    const color = colorFor(svc.name);
-    const pm = detectPM(cwd);
-    const cmd = pm === 'yarn' ? 'yarn' : pm === 'pnpm' ? 'pnpm' : pm === 'bun' ? 'bun' : 'npm';
-    const args = pm === 'yarn' ? ['run','dev'] : ['run','dev'];
+    if (!fs.existsSync(pkgPath)) {
+  console.log(`Skipping ${svc.name} (no package.json)`);
+  continue;
+}
+
+let pkg; 
+try {
+  pkg = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(pkgPath,'utf-8'));
+} catch {
+  console.log(chalk.yellow(`Skipping ${svc.name} (invalid package.json)`));
+    continue;
+}
+
+// Determine which script to run
+const useScript = pkg.scripts?.dev ? 'dev' : pkg.scripts?.start ? 'start' : null;
+if (!useScript) {
+   console.log(chalk.yellow(`Skipping ${svc.name} (no "dev" or "start" script)`));
+    continue;
+}
+if (useScript === 'start') {
+  console.log(`running start instead of dev for ${svc.name}`);
+}
+
+const color = colorFor(svc.name);
+const pm = detectPM(svcPath);
+const cmd = pm === 'yarn' ? 'yarn' : pm === 'pnpm' ? 'pnpm' : pm === 'bun' ? 'bun' : 'npm';
+const args = ['run', useScript]; 
+
     const child = spawn(cmd, args, { cwd: svcPath, env: { ...process.env, PORT: String(svc.port) }, shell: true });
     procs.push(child);
     child.stdout.on('data', d => process.stdout.write(color(`[${svc.name}] `) + d.toString()));
@@ -76,18 +100,27 @@ export async function runDev({ docker=false } = {}) {
     });
     // health check
     const healthUrl = `http://localhost:${svc.port}/health`;
-    const hp = waitForHealth(healthUrl).then(ok => {
+    const hp = waitForHealth(healthUrl,30000).then(ok => {
       const msg = ok ? chalk.green(`✔ health OK ${svc.name} ${healthUrl}`) : chalk.yellow(`⚠ health timeout ${svc.name} ${healthUrl}`);
       console.log(msg);
     });
     healthPromises.push(hp);
   }
+}
+
   if (!procs.length) {
     console.log(chalk.yellow('No auto-runnable Node/Frontend services found. Use --docker to start all via compose.'));
+    // ✅ FIXED: Exit cleanly when running in CI/test mode
+    if (process.env.CI === 'true') {
+      process.exit(0);
+    }
   }
   await Promise.all(healthPromises);
-  console.log(chalk.blue('Watching services. Press Ctrl+C to exit.'));
-  process.on('SIGINT', () => { procs.forEach(p => p.kill('SIGINT')); process.exit(0); });
+
+  if (procs.length > 0) {
+    console.log(chalk.blue('Watching services. Press Ctrl+C to exit.'));
+    process.on('SIGINT', () => { procs.forEach(p => p.kill('SIGINT')); process.exit(0); });
+  }
 }
 
 function detectPM(root) {