Project dependencies

[fuocor]

It's not at all clear how to get project dependencies to work.

If I create ProjextA and ProjectB (dependency of A) at the same time how do I get B linked to A?
Adding B to the project.json of A result in "rush generate" failing and "cyclicDependencyProjects" in rush.json does not seem to have any effect.

thanks,
rich

[qz2017]

You can use a lower/published version of B in project.json of A. Then A is built with a slightly older version of B. One project has to be built first with all available dependencies.

[nickpape]

Hi @fuocor,

To be clear, you are attempting to simply link 2 projects together? You should simply be able to add both projects to your rush.json, add a dependency to ProjectB in the package.json of ProjectA, then run "rush install". As long as the version specifier used in the package.json of ProjectA is compatible with the version specified in ProjectB's package.json everything should link correctly.

For example:

ProjectA's package.json

{
  "name": "project-a",
  "version": "1.1.1"
}

ProjectB's package.json

{
  "name": "project-b",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "project-a": ">=1.0.0 <2.0.0"
  }
}

Note that in Rush3, you only need to run rush generate if rush install tells you it is necessary.

[fuocor]

I thought I did that ( a few times ...) to have the rush generate fail
I tried again ...and... I guess doing on a Friday morning at 5:30 fixed the problem ;).
Yesterday must have been a really bad karma day for me

thanks.