artcraftx/frontend/README.md

Frontend

This is an nx monorepo that can contain multiple apps and shared libraries.

All commands to run these projects are performed from this directory (except the repo-root launcher scripts noted below).

Requirements

• Node.js 20+ (Nx 21 / Vite 6 requirement). Install via nvm, nodejs.org, or brew install node.
• npm (ships with Node).

We use npm, not pnpm. pnpm was briefly adopted ("add pnpm to solve build issues") and later removed ("fix(frontend): consume video-editor libs via nx path aliases, drop pnpm"). If you have leftovers from that era — a pnpm-lock.yaml, pnpm-workspace.yaml, or a node_modules/.pnpm directory — npm installs will fail (typically with ENOTEMPTY rename errors). See Troubleshooting below.

Install dependencies

npm install

Running the apps in dev mode

From the repository root, start the frontend and Tauri desktop app together:

./script/unix_dev.sh

The launcher finds and binds a free port starting at 5183, then gives Tauri the same URL. Set ARTCRAFTX_DEV_PORT to change the starting port. Vite handles frontend live reload; Tauri watches Rust workspace dependencies and rebuilds and restarts the app on edits. Ctrl-C stops both. See the repository README for details.

For just the frontend, directly from this directory:

npx nx dev artcraft

Building

npx nx build artcraft-website
npx nx build artcraft-webapp
npx nx build artcraft
npx nx build editor2d

Netlify deploys run apps/<app>/script/netlify_build.sh (see each app's netlify.toml).

Troubleshooting

npm install fails with ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rename ...

Your node_modules tree is corrupted — usually an interrupted install, or a tree written by pnpm back when the repo briefly used it. Fix:

./clean_modules.sh
npm install

Or the manual minimum:

rm -rf node_modules .nx pnpm-lock.yaml pnpm-workspace.yaml
npm install

Stale build state after switching branches

Call this when starting on main or a new branch:

./clean_modules.sh

It removes all dist/ outputs, resets the nx cache, and removes node_modules.

Import aliases

The names for @frontend and @storyteller come from the package.json file in the libs folder:

import { Login } from "@frontend/login";
import { api } from "@storyteller/api";

For shared UI components, import from @storyteller/ui-[componentname]:

import { Button } from "@storyteller/ui-button";
import { Modal } from "@storyteller/ui-modal";

Generating a new component library

# 1. Generate the library
npx nx g @nx/react:library libs/components/toaster --import-path=@storyteller/ui-toaster --bundler=vite
npm install

# 2. Import it somewhere in code

# 3. Sync and build
nx sync
nx build