Should packages be explicit dependencies?

[thlmenezes]

Because it is a monorepo, I know that importing directly the packages will work because of the symlink inside node_modules; but shouldn't it be listed explicitly in the packages.json's dependencies?

Example:
package api uses db, but db is not inside package.json

packages/api/src/routers/context.ts

import { PrismaClient } from "db";

packages/api/package.json

"dependencies": {
  "@trpc/server": "^9.15.0",
  "zod": "^3.17.2"
}

[juliusmarminge]

but shouldn't it be listed explicitly in the dependencies of the packages or apps?

Yes they should. This is one of the main things that I disliked about zart, all the dependencies just magically hoist together and it is definetely something I want to fix. Haven't had any time for this repo in a while now but if you want to hack on it feel free!

[thlmenezes]

Thanks for the reply and the awesome work with the repo, love the packages ideas (api and db packages specially); I've been hacking my own starter for my company so not much time either; but will come back later when finished and PR. Although it's way more opinionated, if you are curious it's on GitHub here.

I saw your work in the create-t3-app@next and got to this repo. Just starting on trpc and loving it.

[juliusmarminge]

Thanks for the reply and the awesome work with the repo, love the packages ideas (api and db packages specially); I've been hacking my own starter for my company so not much time either; but will come back later when finished and PR. Although it's way more opinionated, if you are curious it's on GitHub here.

I saw your work in the create-t3-app@next and got to this repo. Just starting on trpc and loving it.

Please checkout create-t3-turbo which has a much cleaner dependency tree imo.