Manage multiple Dart packages within a single repository.
> dart pub global activate mono_repo
> dart pub global run mono_repo
Or, once you've setup your PATH:
> mono_repo
Prints the following help message:
Manage multiple packages in one source repository.
Usage: mono_repo <command> [arguments]
Global options:
-h, --help Print this usage information.
--version Prints the version of mono_repo.
--[no-]recursive Whether to recursively walk sub-directories looking for packages.
(defaults to on)
--verbose Show full stack trace on error. (Useful for debugging.)
Available commands:
check Check the state of the repository.
dart Runs the `dart` command with the provided arguments across all packages.
generate Generates the CI configuration for child packages.
list List all packages configured for mono_repo.
presubmit Run the CI presubmits locally.
pub Runs the `pub` command with the provided arguments across all packages.
readme Generate a markdown table of all packages configured for mono_repo.
Run "mono_repo help <command>" for more information about a command.
To start, you should create a mono_repo.yaml
file at the root of your repo.
This controls repo wide configuration.
One option you likely want to configure is which CI providers you want to
generate config for. github
can be configured by adding a corresponding entry.
You probably also want to enable the self_validate
option, which will add a
job to ensure that your configuration is up to date.
So, an example config might look like this:
# Enabled GitHub actions - https://docs.github.com/actions
# If you have no configuration, you can set the value to `true` or just leave it
# empty.
github:
# Specify the `on` key to configure triggering events.
# See https://docs.github.com/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#on
# The default values is
# on:
# push:
# branches:
# - main
# - master
# pull_request:
# Setting just `cron` is a shortcut to keep the defaults for `push` and
# `pull_request` while adding a single `schedule` entry.
# `on` and `cron` cannot both be set.
cron: '0 0 * * 0' # “At 00:00 (UTC) on Sunday.”
# Specify additional environment variables accessible to all jobs
env:
FOO: BAR
# You can group stages into individual workflows
#
# Any stages that are omitted here are put in a default workflow
# named `dart.yml`.
workflows:
# The key here is the name of the file - .github/workflows/lint.yml
lint:
# This populates `name` in the workflow
name: Dart Lint CI
# These are the stages that are populated in the workflow file
stages:
- analyze
# You can add custom github actions configurations to run after completion
# of all other jobs here. This accepts normal github job config except that
# the `needs` config is filled in for you, and you aren't allowed to pass it.
on_completion:
# Example job that pings a web hook url stored in a github secret with a
# json payload linking to the failed run.
- name: "Notify failure"
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
# By default this job will only run if all dependent jobs are successful,
# but we want to run in the failure case for this purpose.
if: failure()
steps:
- run: >
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d \
"{'text':'Build failed! ${GITHUB_SERVER_URL}/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/actions/runs/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}'}" \
"${CHAT_WEBHOOK_URL}"
env:
CHAT_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.CHAT_WEBHOOK_URL }}
# You can customize stage ordering as well as make certain stages be
# conditional here, this is supported for all CI providers. The `if`
# condition should use the appropriate syntax for the provider it is being
# configured for.
stages:
- name: cron
# Only run this stage for scheduled cron jobs
if: github.event_name == 'schedule'
# Adds a job that runs `mono_repo generate --validate` to check that everything
# is up to date. You can specify the value as just `true` or give a `stage`
# you'd like this job to run in.
self_validate: analyze
# Use this key to merge stages across packages to create fewer jobs
merge_stages:
- analyze
# When using `test_with_coverage`, this setting configures the service that
# results are uploaded to.
# Note: you can configure both options, but this would be unusual.
# Note: you can configure this key with no values, to just generate the files
# locally. This may be to enable other, custom processing.
coverage_service:
# https://coveralls.io/ - the default
- coveralls
# https://codecov.io/ – the other option
# NOTE: `CODECOV_TOKEN` must be populated in your GitHub actions secrets
- codecov
To configure a package directory to be included it must contain a
mono_pkg.yaml
file (along with the normal pubspec.yaml
file).
You can use an empty mono_pkg.yaml
file to enable the check
and pub
commands.
To enable generate
and presubmit
, you must populate mono_pkg.yaml
with
details on how you'd like tests to be run.
.github/dependabot.yml
By adding
github:
dependabot: {}
To your mono_repo.yaml
configuration, mono_repo will generate a .github/dependabot.yml
file that updates all your packages with a default configuration.
Any further configuration can go into the map and will be merged with the updates of the packages. For example:
github:
dependabot:
updates:
- package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
directory: "/"
schedule:
interval: "monthly"
mono_pkg.yaml
example# Every entry must be associated with at least one SDK version – corresponding
# to the Dart SDK version or the Flutter framework version, depending on the
# type of package. It can be specified at the top-lever as a single value or
# an array. Alternatively, you can specify the SDK version(s) within each job.
sdk:
- dev
# Specific `pubspec` to test the lower-bound SDK defined in pubspec.yaml
# This is only supported for Dart packages (not Flutter).
- pubspec
stages:
# Register two jobs to run under the `analyze` stage.
- analyze:
- analyze
- format
- unit_test:
- test
# Example cron stage which will only run for scheduled jobs (here we run
# multiple OS configs for extra validation as an example).
#
# See the `mono_repo.yaml` example above for where this stage is specially
# configured.
- cron:
- test:
os:
- linux
- windows
Running mono_repo generate
in the root directory generates two or more files:
tool/ci.sh
and a configuration file for each configured ci provider.
Look at these repositories for examples of mono_repo
usage:
Historically, package:mono_repo and Dependabot couldn't be used together - they both wanted to maintain your GitHub workflow file. We've adopted mono_repo so that you can now use both it and Dependabot in your repo.
When generating your workflow configuration (mono_repo generate
) mono_repo
will write out its current default action versions into the workflow file. If
however it sees that the repo has a Dependabot configuration - has a file named
.github/dependabot.yaml
in the repo - mono_repo will instead parse the
workflow file, read out the current action versions, and use those versions when
re-generating the file. This lets mono_repo manage the overall structure of the
file, while allowing Dependabot to independently move various action versions
forward as necessary.