I’m facing a bit of a challenge to configure a monorepo with pnpm workspaces.

Saying I have the following structure:

apps
  - application1
  - application2
packages
  - @my-project/package1
  - @my-project/package2
  - @my-project/package3

My pnpm workspace configuration is fairly simple:

# pnpm-workspace.yaml
packages:
  - 'apps/**/*'
  - 'packages/**/*'

How do I reference packages into apps?

package.json
{
  "dependencies": {
    "@my-project/package1": "workspace:*",
    "@my-project/package2": "workspace:*",
    "@my-project/package3": "workspace:*",
  } 
}

So far, so good. All my applcations run and the dependencies work exactly as expected. However, I have a bit of a problem.

One of my applications is a NestJS backend service. It references some of those libraries. Whenever I change something on the NestJS application itself, the “hot reload” functionality works seamsly. Whenever I change anything on any of the referenced packages, I need to stop my NestJS service, re-install its dependencies and start the application again in order to make it seeing my latest changes.

Do you guys know if there is a way to configure the NestJS application/Typescript or something to, whenever something is changed on the packages, they are built and its dist is already set to the apps I’m running?

Thank y’all!