why use dependsOn and sync rather than pnpm?

[tomdavidson]

What is the advantage of using moon's dependsOn configuration and sync command rather than pnpm?

[milesj]

@tomdavidson moon supports both explicit (dependsOn) and implicit dependencies (package.json dependency scanning), so you're welcome to use whichever approach you like best. Or you can use them together.

However, explicit is required when you are depending on other projects that are not JavaScript. For example, your frontend application can depend on a backend application that is written in Ruby or something.

In the end, it's all about choice. Use whichever you like best.

https://moonrepo.dev/docs/faq#what-should-be-considered-the-source-of-truth

[milesj]

@tomdavidson It does depending on your Node.js version: https://github.com/moonrepo/moon/blob/master/crates/platform-node/src/actions/install_deps.rs#L19

[tomdavidson]

Thanks. I may have come across a bug but perhaps its worth being quite explicit on the intended behavior here before opening an issue.

moon 0.16.1
NodeJS 18.10.0 (node.version = engines.node)
pnpm 7.13.x

When updating pnpm from 7.13.2 I updated the workspace.yml's node.pnpm.version to to 7.13.5 and then ran moon sync and inspected the root package.json and observed no change.

[milesj]

@tomdavidson Right now moon sync only syncs projects. The packageManager update happens as part of node module installation, which currently does not happen during the sync.

[tomdavidson]

Ok, it did update with setup. I think something like sync that could be fun on a pre-push hook would help keep everything in aligned but ill get some more hands-on before making feature requests. Thanks for helping me adopt moon (Ive been taking newbie experience notes too and will share whats worth sharing).

[milesj]

Definitely, would love to hear them!