I can't get Task Dependencies to work

[leo-petrucci]

I'm a bit confused, the docs page make it seem very simple but I can't get Turbo to play along.

According to the Arbitrary Worskpaces example, I should just be able to specify <workspace>#<task> in turbo.json and have Turbo launch both tasks.

    "dev": {
      "dependsOn": ["frontend#dev", "api#dev"]
    },

When I run Turbo however this is the output:

> turbo dev
yarn table
 ERROR  run failed: error preparing engine: Could not find "api#dev" in root turbo.json or "api" workspace
Turbo error: error preparing engine: Could not find "api#dev" in root turbo.json or "api" workspace

The workspace does exist and both commands run fine on their own:

> turbo frontend#dev
• Remote caching disabled
frontend:dev cache miss, executing 6e2e35dbb79fbce9

I can only get the command to work if I modify it as such:

    "dev": {
      "dependsOn": ["frontend#dev", "api#dev"]
    },
    "frontend#dev": {},
    "api#dev": {},

But this seems excessively verbose and considering the amount of projects in my repo I'd end up having a lot of empty Turbo configs.

Am I misunderstanding how this works?

I'm using turbo@1.10.2.

[mehulkar]

Can you provide a minimal repro? The example you give above should actually cause a circular dependency validation error (since you're askind all dev tasks to depend on specific dev tasks). I tried this out locally with turbo@1.10.2 and saw the circular dependency error as I expected, so I feel like there may be something else missing from your question.

[anthonyshew]

Going to close here for staleness.