Issues with monorepo support regarding gentype and commonjs build

[TomiS]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but it appears neither commonjs files (with in-source: false) nor gentyped files are being generated. At least not in the monorepo enviroment.

Here's a fairly minimal monorepo to demonstrate the issue
https://github.com/TomiS/rewatch-test

[Bushuo]

Gentype will work with the next 11.x release of the rescript compiler.
This prerelease also has the changes included https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript/releases/tag/v11.2.0-beta.1
I am using a local build and had no issues so far.

[TomiS]

Thanks. Unfortunately it seems updating to latest ReScript version changes nothing in my test repository. Both issues remain. I updated the test repo to confirm this.

[Bushuo]

I tried with your repo, if you add the "gentypeconfig" to the root rescript.json it works.
Maybe supporting it on a per project basis makes sense.

[TomiS]

Ah, of course I did not test that combination of configs this time. Thanks, now it indeed works. It required running clear once though. But this solves the gentype issue.

However building to multiple targets is another long-term issue that still exists. I wonder if it is even supposed to work, and what are the implications if it will not. E.g. is the support for commonjs target still considered as necessary? Personally I use it to run some part of the code to generate pdf files on node. But maybe node (or some other runtime) can nowadays properly work with esm target too, I haven't recently checked.