"Cannot find project 'pieces-x'" when trying to publish a custom piece

[aguerin]

hello there,

I need help to publish a custom piece into our hosted version of Activepieces on a distant server.

We built a piece in activepieces/packages/pieces/custom/sellsy

on local environment, npm start works fine, everything is ok, I can use the cusotm piece, update it etc…

BUT, when I try to publish the piece to a distant version of Activepieces (on our test environment)
I’ve an error on step npx nx build pieces-sellsy --skip-cache
saying NX Cannot find project 'pieces-sellsy'

Error is triggered when using :
npm run publish-piece-to-api or npm run build-piece

Does someone have any idea from where this error came from ? and how to fix it ?

npm run build-piece

> activepieces@0.50.5 build-piece
> npx ts-node packages/cli/src/index.ts pieces build

? Enter the piece folder name sellsy
Error: Command failed: npx nx build pieces-sellsy --skip-cache

    at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:422:12)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:517:28)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:domain:489:12)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1098:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:303:5) {
  code: 1,
  killed: false,
  signal: null,
  cmd: 'npx nx build pieces-sellsy --skip-cache',
  stdout: "\n NX   Cannot find project 'pieces-sellsy'\n\n",
  stderr: ''
}

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Data

• directory of the piece : packages/pieces/custom/sellsy
• in package.json of the piece : "name": "@activepieces/piece-sellsy"
• in project.json of the piece : "name": "pieces-sellsy"
• exec of npx nx show projects | grep sellsy shows nothing

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What we tried

We try to move the custom/sellsy into community/sellsy, and now npx nx show projects | grep sellsy shows a result. BUT, when try to built, we had 2k log lines

Error: Command failed: npx nx build pieces-sellsy --skip-cache

packages/pieces/community/common/src/index.ts:1:15 - error TS6059: File '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/authentication/index.ts' is not under 'rootDir' '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/sellsy'. 'rootDir' is expected to contain all source files.

Stacktrace (60 first lines)

npm run build-piece

> activepieces@0.50.5 build-piece
> npx ts-node packages/cli/src/index.ts pieces build

? Enter the piece folder name sellsy
Error: Command failed: npx nx build pieces-sellsy --skip-cache
packages/pieces/community/common/src/index.ts:1:15 - error TS6059: File '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/authentication/index.ts' is not under 'rootDir' '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/sellsy'. 'rootDir' is expected to contain all source files.
  The file is in the program because:
    Imported via './lib/authentication' from file '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/index.ts'
    Imported via '../../authentication' from file '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/http/core/delegating-authentication-converter.ts'
    Imported via '../../authentication' from file '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/http/core/base-http-client.ts'
    Imported via '../../authentication' from file '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/http/core/http-request.ts'

1 export * from './lib/authentication';
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/http/core/delegating-authentication-converter.ts:8:8
    8 } from '../../authentication';
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    File is included via import here.
  packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/http/core/base-http-client.ts:1:32
    1 import { Authentication } from '../../authentication';
                                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    File is included via import here.
  packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/http/core/http-request.ts:4:32
    4 import { Authentication } from '../../authentication';
                                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    File is included via import here.
packages/pieces/community/common/src/index.ts:2:15 - error TS6059: File '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/helpers/index.ts' is not under 'rootDir' '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/sellsy'. 'rootDir' is expected to contain all source files.

2 export * from './lib/helpers';
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
packages/pieces/community/common/src/index.ts:4:15 - error TS6059: File '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/polling/index.ts' is not under 'rootDir' '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/sellsy'. 'rootDir' is expected to contain all source files.

4 export * from './lib/polling';
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
packages/pieces/community/common/src/index.ts:5:15 - error TS6059: File '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/ai/index.ts' is not under 'rootDir' '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/sellsy'. 'rootDir' is expected to contain all source files.
  The file is in the program because:
    Imported via './lib/ai' from file '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/index.ts'
    Imported via '../..' from file '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/ai/providers/anthropic/index.ts'
    Imported via '../..' from file '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/ai/providers/openai/index.ts'
    Imported via '../index' from file '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/ai/providers/utils.ts'
    Imported via '../..' from file '/home/{my_user}/Projects/activepieces/packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/ai/providers/replicate/index.ts'

5 export * from './lib/ai';
                ~~~~~~~~~~

  packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/ai/providers/anthropic/index.ts:3:43
    3 import { AI, AIChatRole, AIFactory } from '../..';
                                                ~~~~~~~
    File is included via import here.
  packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/ai/providers/openai/index.ts:1:43
    1 import { AI, AIChatRole, AIFactory } from '../..';
                                                ~~~~~~~
    File is included via import here.
  packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/ai/providers/utils.ts:7:8
    7 } from '../index';
             ~~~~~~~~~~
    File is included via import here.
  packages/pieces/community/common/src/lib/ai/providers/replicate/index.ts:4:43
    4 import { AI, AIChatRole, AIFactory } from '../..';
                                                ~~~~~~~

[aguerin]

I’m pretty sure it’s something about the sellsy location directly (in a packages/pieces/custom, but, by now we want to keep our custom piece private, but publish it into our future multiple instances

And of course, I’d read about Publish Custom Pieces - Activepieces

[aguerin]

(seen with Mohammad) Thanks again for the quick response of the Activepieces team

It seems to be an problem with either my tsconfig.base.json (on root path), either on our custom piece project.json (the recently added i18n asset was missing)

What we do ?

• Check with our eyes the main files of the custom pieces
  => nothing
• Try to manually build our piece, npx nx build pieces-sellsy --skip-cache
  => same error
  even with manually update on root tsconfig.base.json to declare our missing piece
• Create a new empty piece using npm run cli pieces create
  => build for this empty piece was ok
• Copy our custom piece src folder inside the new one created**
  => build is ok now **

Next, I try to compare the new created piece and the “old” one, and differences are :

• project.json of the piece, the asset related to recently releases i18n feature on Activepieces was missing
• outside the piece folder, tsconfig.base.json, on root path, was updated, adding the piece-sellsy
  => I suspect it was just this part who create this behaviour. We recently make change on our fork, and probably this change has been discarded previously