Create redesign components separate package

[DGoiana]

Create a separate package that only depends on flutter and UI packages to create the redesign components

[limwa]

@bartekpacia what can we use to achieve this? Do you think that just having multiple separate folders in the lib/ directory is enough? Or do we go with a tool like melos? Or is there any other way to achieve the desired result?
Personally, my understanding is that multiple folders in the lib/ directory doesn't offer very good isolation of "packages".
If we go with melos, it's an important discussion to have as soon as possible with the whole team, since, from what I understand, melos offers utilities to generate changelogs, which is relevant to the discussion we're having in #1248.

[bartekpacia]

Do you think that just having multiple separate folders in the lib/ directory is enough?

Nope. Multiple folders under lib/ it's what we have now. Currently we have only 1 package (in /uni). The proposal (copied over from Notion) is to have:

. (uni_repo_root)
└── packages/
    ├── uni_app/
    │   ├── android/
    │   ├── ios/
    │   └── lib/
    │   └── pubspec.yaml
    └── uni_common_ui/
        └── lib/
        └── pubspec.yaml
    └── uni_lints (possible in the future)
        └── lib/
        └── pubspec.yaml

Every directory under /packages would be a separate Dart package, i.e. contain its own lib/ directory and its own pubspec.yaml.

RE Melos: it does come in handy as number of packages grow, but for 2, I don't think it makes much sense. I haven't used its changelog genering feature as well, so can't say a much, but from what I've seen it's mostly for packages that are published to pub.dev and which enforce Conventional Commits.

As an example, the Flutterfire repo uses Melos extensively, but it's quite massive in terms of package count.

For 2 packages, I just don't think we'd get that much of a value from using Melos.

[limwa]

I see, so having the pubspec.yaml in each directory is what makes the difference... I agree with your reasoning to not use melos. Thanks for the clarification!