Monorepo support

[KenzoBenzo]

Hey there!

I can see it's possible to create a GitHub repo but I'd love if it could be embedded into an existing repo. Specifically we are using Turborepo and I'd add it as a package.

[gqio]

Hello,

We have some parts of the functionnalities but it's not fully tested, still in alpha on our side.

May you share with me an example repo where I can work on it on this feature and see if we can propose some of the beta features as a public feature?

Happy to discuss in discord as well.

[KenzoBenzo]

Hey @gqio 👋🏼 sure, I'll create a demo turbo setup. Would you like it to mirror the backlight output or my current structure?

[gqio]

Hey @gqio 👋🏼 sure, I'll create a demo turbo setup. Would you like it to mirror the backlight output or my current structure?

You current structure will be fine, we are in the middle of revamping some part on our side to make it streamlined for people wanting to jump into backlight ;)

Thanks 🙏

[KenzoBenzo]

@gqio — here is a super minimal example of what my setup is like.

I would house my backlight code inside of packages>ui. This is currently where I keep my atomic components + theme. I'd be happy to provide feedback / help how I can. Will join the discord server too.

[gqio]

Hello again ;)

Yes we have a lot of work to do to support fully mono repo via workspaces yarn2+/npm7+

But still I did a quick shot on your repo with some tweaks https://github.com/gqio/turbo-backlight-example

I also added in the Readme the link to the backlight preview

normally ... just clone the repository ... and then follow

cd packages/ui
npx backlight serve rCJkjZvk0F04fxlGEmbX --open

Backlight needs a pretty dead simple configuration studio.config.json and then you can use the CLI.
Once you have a link to backlight of your design system ... feel free to share it, compilation and updates are real-time.

I will specify what we are missing for mono repo.

Many thanks for sharing this.
You can join us on discord for more information

Best.

[KenzoBenzo]

Hey Greg,

This is super awesome, thank you! I'll give it a try and report back 😄