A shared folder structure

[eric-burel]

Idea:

• "shared" is a folder used by "surveyform" and "dataops", and maybe the APIs
• "surveyform" is the Next app
• "dataops" is just a set of scripts, like the normalization script

I need to dig the experimental "externalDir" of Next.js:

• Cannot import Typescript files from outside of 'dir' directory vercel/next.js#9474 (comment)
• Feedback thread: Experimental TypeScript compiling outside of app directory feedback thread vercel/next.js#26420
• PR that implements the feature Experimental feature for allowing importing Typescript files outside of the root directory vercel/next.js#22867

I'd like to avoid as much as possible a full-fledged monorepo, because they are simply hard to setup. But maybe I am wrong, pnpm workspaces are worth investigating.

Anyway for a first version I am trying to stick with file imports. "shared" is simply a code folder, but outside of the actual app because it's used by multiple app. The "shared/package.json" is just there for development, the main app must make sure that it also includes the right dependencies, because only its package.json will be actually used during build/run.

The only other alternative is to make the Next.js app "fat" and keep scripts there, a bit like Meteor used to work.

Use cases

• move the normalization script to a "scripts" folder (currently in Next surveyform)
• move the Redis connection logic (currently in api-internal) for reuse in surveyform: https://github.com/Devographics/Monorepo/blob/main/api-internal/src/locales.ts
• Load surveys from the repo https://github.com/Devographics/Surveys/

Resources

• https://vercel.com/changelog/projects-using-pnpm-can-now-be-deployed-with-zero-configuration
• https://blog.nrwl.io/setup-a-monorepo-with-pnpm-workspaces-and-speed-it-up-with-nx-bc5d97258a7e

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