Evidence Monorepo Support

[archiewood]

Ability to have multiple evidence projects that live inside one repo and have the dev experience run smoothly.

• components in one place only but available across projects
• can run commands from the root and have them do the right things for multiple projects
• (maybe) some recommendation on how to kick off builds in cases where you have >1

[AlbinXXX]

do you mind if I work on the following issue:
I want to be able to run dev environment from the monorepo root folder and be able to run it all with one or two commands?

[ItsMeBrianD]

I think this issue is related to working on evidence projects (not the evidence monorepo itself) but if you want to take a stab at improving the dev experience in this repository we're always open to pull requests!

[shakedlokits]

This is what blocks us from using evidence.
We have an Nx monorepo of our project and you can't run evidence in it. It breaks the CLI.

[archiewood]

What's your setup?

Can you npm --prefix ./my-evidence-folder run sources etc?

[shakedlokits]

Hey @archiewood
It's an Nx monorepo. It has a directory called sites and I created a monorepo/sites/business-analysis directory for evidence.

This is what I get:

➜  npm --prefix ./sites/business-analysis run sources

> my-evidence-project@0.0.1 sources
> evidence sources

Could not find evidence plugins file. (Look at /Users/shakedlokits/Documents/Projects/monorepo/evidence.plugins.yaml)

It's looking in the wrong directory for the evidence.plugins.yaml file, even though I gave it a prefix.

[archiewood]

Which folder did you store your evidence.plugins.yaml in? Root or business-analysis?

[shakedlokits]

I stored it in monorepo/sites/business-analysis as it is unrelated to the other teams in the company.

[shakedlokits]

@archiewood any updates?

[archiewood]

Don't have a fix slated yet

in the meantime are you able to cd into the correct directory and run from there?

[archiewood]

Will also happily review PRs if this feature is important to you!

[hughess]

This may work if you use the VS Code extension's built-in commands. If you are in your monorepo root and click Start Evidence (or use Cmd/Ctrl + R) it should start evidence in the subfolder it's in