How do you import from "dist" directory of a Lerna package?

• lerna

  162 35,352 8.9 TypeScript

  :dragon: Lerna is a fast, modern build system for managing and publishing multiple JavaScript/TypeScript packages from the same repository.

  

I use Lerna to manage a monorepo with several TypeScript projects. For those who don't know, Lerna creates symlinks between dependent projects and makes them see each other as normal npm packages. It's kinda awesome, but there is an issue. My project structure looks roughly like this:

• io-ts

  80 6,597 4.9 TypeScript

  Runtime type system for IO decoding/encoding

I don't think there is a limit on the depth of these paths. I've definitely seen 3+ levels deep imports in other libraries (I think io-ts did something like that).

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• lodash

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I meant a pattern that many libraries use, allowing to import things from their submodules. lodash is a utility library I used as an example. Apart from a single import path for everything, it allows to do the following:

• ts-monorepo

  14 1,420 8.6 TypeScript

  Template for setting up a TypeScript monorepo

If these are libraries, and you aim to publish them, you will have to do some mangling in the prepublish scripts. I actually describe this in a recent issue here: https://github.com/NiGhTTraX/ts-monorepo/issues/53

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