How can I share components across multiple react projects without having to publish them on a public package manager like NPM?
Option 1: You can use npm and use private packages so they're not external facing. There are also artifactories and scoped packages that usually represent company-wide projects that can be public or private. See https://docs.npmjs.com/private-modules/intro and https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scope.
Option 2: Essentially, you can develop projects with a flattened structure. You can then import various projects and/or components into other projects or folders. This is entirely dependent on your codebase and configuration. With this model though, a lot of times publishing to npm comes fairly naturally since each folder may be its own project with its own package.json.
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Option 3: Bit focuses on the composability of components from everything from the little things like a button to the actual view and app itself—each target is its own package. Overall, it's an opinionated, yet customizable framework that can enable quicker development, managed dependencies, and organized code.
Option 4: RushJS is a monorepo manager built by Microsoft that allows for flexibility of different kinds of apps and services utilizing pnpm underneath (as opposed to yarn and npm), which alleviates problems that stem from dependency issues.
Check out Bit:
Bit is an open-source cli tool for collaborating on isolated components across projects and repositories. Use Bit to distribute discrete components from a design library or a project into a standalone reusable package and utilize it across applications.
You could also upload them to a private git repo such a Github and then pull them in from there.
Ryanve has a nice example over here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28729646/1592783
You could create a repo of shared components and then have your Node.js start script call a shell script to do a git pull from that repo and the move the shared components from that directory to your project's directory. That way, every time you call run 'npm start' you will have the latest version of the shared components loaded into your project
This is possibly the dumbest question ever, but I've downloaded the jsPDF library from here: jsPDF. It's not offered through the NuGet packages, so how do I then use it in my .NET MVC project solution? Do I need to move the downloaded folder to the "Packages" folder in my project's directory? Do something else?
Obviously, I'm a total newbie to this, so please keep your answers uncomplicated if possible. Thanks!
A Nuget package is literally just a zip file of a compiled project. If it's C# code, it's a collection of DLLs, but depending on the project, it could have static resources like CSS, JS, etc. It could also have views or other resources. The long and short, is that all of this is just pretty much dumped into your project when you include a Nuget package, much as if you had simply added it yourself.
The slight exception is with DLLs, which are placed in packages simply to keep them organized, and then simply referenced by the project they were added to. Therefore, in order to add something not available as a Nuget, you simply just add all the stuff to your project. If there's JS/CSS and such, then just drop that somewhere in your project. If there's DLLs, create some place to house those on your filesystem, and then add a reference to them in your project. I would not recommend sticking them in the packages directory, because that's managed by Nuget, and it could clobber your DLLs if you put them there.
I'm writing a library and a project that uses the library. It's common with Stack to put both in the same folder and maintain a multi-package project, but I want to have two separate projects instead. Stack has external dependencies for this, but they are specified by locations and the projects runs on multiple machines, so it's inconvenient to specify paths (unless it's possible to have nested Stack projects, but this kinds defeats the purpose of having separate packages). I also don't want to use git locations, because it feels burdensome to explicitly specify commits (or maybe this is not necessary?), and don't want to pack the repository in an archive and then download it each time I change something.
Ideally, I would like to be able to install the library on a machine and then reference it somehow in stack.yaml by its name, not location. Is it possible to do that? If not, is there a convenient way to maintain two separate but related packages?
I ended up using git submodules as jonrsharpe suggested. Works good so far.
In separate Windows 8.1/Windows Phone 8.1 projects, including the SharpDX.targets file from the SharpDX repo includes all of its content build actions in each project. Doing the same in the shared project in a universal app doesn't work (project reloads successfully but tools are no in the Build Action list).
Is there an alternate solution to keeping the content in the shared project rather than keeping copies in each of the W8.1/WP8.1 projects just because there is no centralized way of building it?
No, a shared project in a universal app is never really built. It's merely a container of files to be shared into each of the specific projects. If you have custom build actions, you need to include them in each specific project (that requires them).
This is just odd.
I'm getting a build error in ServiceStack.Text after just bringing down the latest build from GitHub.
if (endpointUrl.IsNullOrEmpty() || !endpointUrl.StartsWith("http"))
return null;
Error 1 No overload for method 'IsNullOrEmpty' takes 0 arguments
ServiceStack\src\ServiceStack.Common\Messaging\ClientFactory.cs 10 18
ServiceStack.Common
I'm also getting bunch of other build errors:
Error 35 'int' does not contain a definition for 'Times' and no extension method 'Times' accepting a first argument of type 'int' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) ServiceStack.Redis\src\ServiceStack.Redis\Messaging\RedisMqServer.cs 192 37 ServiceStack.Redis
and after downloading the ServiceStack branch, I even tried opening ServiceStack-master\src\ServiceStack.sln and tried to build and it's totally broken:
I don't know what's going on here, there can't possibly be this many build errors if any right? I pray not but it seems as such.
Purpose of this post, what I'm asking about and need help clarifying and resolving (mythz???)
I need input from ServiceStack here on the following:
1) are the builds really this broken? Am I imagining this?
2) The branch stucture on GitHub is all over the place meaning I'm finding dup project folders all over and I do not know what this ServiceStack branch is as in it's src folder has a ton of projects there, different versions, as well as doesn't have projects like ServiceStack.Text, etc. so I don't know what's going on here. I want to use the basic core of service stack but there's like repeated stuff everywhere overall on GitHub. I need ServiceStack to clear all this up for me.
Here is my code, so you can see for yourself, it doesn't build.
This one won't build in terms of the ServiceStack projects - it's my solution in which I'm simply trying to include the ServiceStack projects I need along with my own projects that are using ServiceSTack. All I did was downoad those individual projects from https://github.com/ServiceStack then added them to my solution and made sure that any references to each other were now Project references, no longer binary..I removed the binary refs and readded them as project refs. So for example ServiceStack.Common depends on ServiceStack.Text but it was referencing it via binary so I removed it and readded the reference to ServiceStack.Text as a project ref now because in the end we plan on being able to look at and work with the base Stack code. The errors I posted above are happening in this Solution for ServiceStack related projects.
This one won't build - it's a download of the ServiceStack branch master (originally folder name is ServiceStack-master, I removed the -master)
UPDATE: yes I confirmed it's a bad build checked in on the GitHub site (refering to the ServiceStack branch master right above here). I had to remove unused using statements that were causing the build to fail and one of these was a dup using statement causing part of the build failure. I am surprised at this...this stuff should build and people should be checking in code that BUILDS successfully! common! Yes mythz, any dev trying to consume your API would be pissed that there are so many build erros all the time, I can't even get our protype going because this is not the only solution that won't build. First we had the Examples solution all breaking and now the core. I'm willing to fix these if I can but I honestly can't believe it's been a mountain to try to even use this API because of these checked in builds that are failing.
This one Will build because it was Nuget down, so ServiceStack is referencing other layers via binary references in the lib folder so this builds...probably builds here because someone has a working set of builds across all core projects but the stuff on the site for download is not the same revision and broken when you try to use them as project references (source code)?? Just my conclusion as it's only building IF you are using binary references to the lib folder. We want the source, not the binaries to work inside our solution so this is a brick wall for me
There are a lot of big changes happening on master right now - it will be unstable for a while.
I suggest you branch from the v3-fixes tag or pull the references from nuget.
#CoffeeAddict
Yesterday, the mythz answered about these problems in your previous question
"#CoffeeAddict like I said before, ServiceStack's is undergoing significant re-factoring and master in alpha and not for public use. While everything still builds for me and tests still pass in CI, it will be frequently unstable until its in beta. You're likely mixing v3 with v4 dlls which are technically incompatible. The release on NuGet is off the v3 branches of each project, that's what you should checkout if you want to build from src. Any contribs should be done to v3-fixes only - see Contributing docs for more info. – mythz 9 hours ago"
well looks like when I had downloaded all the stack branches, at the time earlier today contributors had checked in broken builds. Fabulous.
I just got latest early this morning, and appears people must have fixed the build and checked some stuff back in for various core projects. Now it builds.
Suggestion to mythz, get CI in place NOW. Don't wait for v4. This cost me a freakin day of trying various things to get this stuff to build and the problems were across several projects. This shouldn't happen, setup CI please. It's 2am and nobody using this project should have to deal with it.
I will contribute but first I had to get a full build to work! Not too happy as no dev would be wasting an entire day getting ServiceStack to build.
To compile v3:
Would someone with true knowledge post PROPER instructions on compiling v4 or v3? I had no luck with the build.bat files for v3 or v4, and opening solutions will not compile for most.
git clone servicestack, servicestack.text, redis, ormlite
make a new directory and copy from under src so you have these:
ServiceStack
ServiceStack.Client
ServiceStack.Common
ServiceStack.Interfaces
ServiceStack.OrmLite
ServiceStack.Redis
ServiceStack.Server
ServiceStack.Text
open csproj for ServiceStack.Interfaces ... right click properties, go to the signing tab, click the combo, new, type in your own signing pfx, I used servicestackInterfaces.pfx (doesn't matter) and make up a password.
Compiles fine, since it has not much referenced.
saved solution as ServiceStackV3 in folder C:\2015\SSv3compile
add csproj ServiceStack.Text, set signature, compiles ok
add csproj ServiceStack.Common, set signature, remove references, add references using solution for interface, text, compiles ok
add csproj ServiceStack.Client, set signature, remove references, add references using solution for interface, text, compiles ok
add csproj ServiceStack, set signature, remove references, add references using solution for client, common, interface, text, compiles ok
add csproj ServiceStack.OrmLite, set signature, remove references, add references using solution for common, interface, text, compiles ok
add csproj ServiceStack.Redis, set signature, remove references, add references using solution for common, interface, text, compiles ok
add csproj ServiceStack.ServiceStack.Server, set signature, remove references, add references using solution for Servicestack, ServiceStack.Client, ServiceStack.Common, ServiceStack.Interface, ServiceStack.Text, ServiceStack.Ormlite, ServiceStack.Redis
compiles ok
have some more trouble compiling the tests...
and finding so many tweaks and changes which are for me maddening to find
(endless agentransack searching for "namespace ISomethinMissing" in *.cs
... there seems to be namespace ServiceStack with cs code contained in projects other than Servicestack...
isn't that VERY improper? (now you require both DLLs? why not one?)
whatever...its free and works for what I wanted.
looks like there is some code leakage from v4...
after getting my head around v3, not sure I want to buy v4 - I will probably buy it in the future, I expect, and hope someday I can just clone and compile from the solution
ANyway, I love servicestack and have been
replacing old webservices
and the config nightmares of WCF with great happiness...
I say it is well worth the initial hassle.
I put this all in code block because I found the editor wouldn't accept this simple text when it was in a numbered list. whatever.