Using generated types in another repo

[yakubovmax213]

Hi! Your project on type generation in Directus is the best and most accurate I've tried. Can you tell me how I can use it in my frontend project? Directus application is in a separate repository

[ChappIO]

That’s great to hear!

I usually use a monorepo for my projects so this hasn’t come up yet. But I can come up with a few options:

1. If your other project uses NodeJS you could consider setting up a CI/CD pipeline to build the types during release of your Directus application. Then publish this as an npm package. You can add this package to your other repo as a dependency.

2. You could add database credentials to a .env file in your other repo. Install “directus” and “directus-extension-models” as dev dependencies and run the type generation command inside that repo by just connecting to a provisioned database.

3. You could set up a PR that (optionally) adds an endpoint to Directus that performs the same operation as the cli command, allowing you to simply download the types from your instance. The pointer to getting there I could give is: Since this is a hooks extension I might skip the “endpoint extension features” altogether and just add the endpoint through the “routes.custom.after” hook.