Question: Any chance to copy relative paths

[OliverFischer]

Hi,
first of all thx for this project.

I have a simple question, our classpath contains relative paths to folders outside the app for reusing modules in different apps:

"classpath": [
        "app",
        "../../ccs/core",
        "../../ccs/auth",
        "../../ccs/ms",
        "../../ccs/cdp",
        "../../ccs/cs",
        "../../ccs/as"
    ],

Is there any chance to get these copied (deloran only copies the overrides and the app part):

...copying source: /Users/Shared/devel/aicgroup-marketing-studio-monorepo/ui/ccs/sencha-extjs/ais-ccm-cloud-platform/app
...copying source: /Users/Shared/devel/aicgroup-marketing-studio-monorepo/ui/ccs/sencha-extjs/ais-ccm-cloud-platform/overrides

Thx in advance

Olli

[OliverFischer]

Another approach could be symlinking the files under the src folder, but when using fs-extra, we need to add another option in the copySync function allowing fs-extra to dereference the files:

const moveProjectFiles = function () {
        ...
        // check if origin exists, then copy
        if (fs.pathExistsSync(origin)) {
            log(chalk.yellow(`...copying source: ${origin}`));
            fs.removeSync(`${target}`);
            // CHANGE START
            fs.copySync(`${origin}`, `${target}`,{
                dereference: true
            });
            // CHANGE END
        }
    });
};

[ThorstenSuckow]

Hey @OliverFischer, thanks for reaching out! There is an externals-configuration that can be used with external projects that need to be considered during the build, but I'm not sure if it applies to your use case - have you already looked into this?

[OliverFischer]

Hi @ThorstenSuckow ,
i read the docs and the externals functionality is based on real cmd - packages. In our case, we simply used the directory for a logical grouping of folders not being real sencha packages and symlinked them into the app (or better symlinked some of them into our core package and some into the app directory).

So, everything works fine with my proposed second solution, if we tell fs-extra to dereference the content behind the folders, the app build is sccessful. By now I simply forked your project and added the options section to the copy part of moveProjectFiles, but if you're interested I could submit a PR.