artcraft-services/frontend/README.md

Frontend

This is the Nx workspace for ArtCraft web apps and shared libraries. The desktop frontend is maintained in storytold/artcraft.

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, the launcher scripts (these preflight your environment, install dependencies, and free the dev port first):

./script/website/unix_frontend_website_dev.sh  # artcraft-website-next (marketing site), port 3000
./script/website/unix_frontend_webapp_dev.sh   # artcraft-webapp (user dashboard), port 4201

Run the webapp from artcraft-services, not the separate artcraft desktop checkout. The webapp launcher also works from another directory when invoked by its full or relative path:

../artcraft-services/script/website/unix_frontend_webapp_dev.sh

Or directly from this directory:

npx nx dev @frontend/artcraft-webapp

Building

npx nx build artcraft-webapp

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