Dependencies for publishable node libraries

[hbj]

Hi,

in a publishable node library, by default the dependencies are added to the package.json automatically during build. This works for most cases, but how can I handle the following cases:

1. add a dependency that's needed but not directly imported in the project, e.g. the require statement uses string concatenation on runtime to figure out which module to load
2. work with dependencies to other publishable libraries in the workspace
3. add tslib to the dependencies as it's needed on runtime but it's not getting added (currently working around it with an import 'tslib'; in my index.ts file)

Thanks!

[hbj]

I got an answer regarding points 1 and 3 on Slack: just manually add any extra needed dependencies to the lib's package.json, Nx will keep them and add to them dependencies it detects.

To follow Nx conventions, you have to install the dependencies on the workspace root using your package manager (npm or yarn) and add corresponding entries to the lib's package.json of the library using your code editor.