Use monorepos with App Hosting

With monorepos, you can organize and manage multiple projects in a single directory. This guide describes how to get started deploying Turborepo or Nx-based apps with App Hosting.

Deploy monorepos with the Firebase console

Monorepo support is built into the graphical backend setup flow in the Firebase console. When prompted for a "Root directory" under "Deployment settings," specify the path to the application you want to deploy inside the monorepo:

Screen shot of the console backend creation view

Deploy monorepos with the Firebase CLI

Monorepo support is built into the backend setup flow invoked by the Firebase CLI command apphosting:backends:create. After you enter this flow and specify your chosen GitHub repository, you are prompted to specify your app's root directory relative to your repository; at this prompt, pass the path to the application you want to deploy inside the monorepo:

$ firebase apphosting:backends:create --project [project-name] i === Import a GitHub repository ✔ Connected with GitHub successfully ? Which GitHub repo do you want to deploy? gh-username/nx-monorepo ? Specify your app's root directory relative to your repository path/to/app

For example, here are the assets that would be deployed given the following project structure and "target-app" as the application you want to build and deploy:

Nx

. ├── libs ├── apps │ └── target-app │ ├── project.json │ └── src │ └── ... ├── nx.json ├── package-lock.json └── package.json

Turborepo

. ├── packages ├── apps │ └── target-app │ ├── package.json │ └── src │ └── ... ├── turbo.json ├── package.json └── package-lock.json

The app's root directory relative to your repository is apps/target-app.

Troubleshooting monorepo deployment

  • If you do not specify the "root directory" field for Nx, then the build will fail and display a message that App Hosting cannot find a project to target inside the Nx monorepo. Similarly, Turborepo users must specify a target app directory because there is no concept of a default project in Turborepo.
  • For Nx + Angular applications, you must use the Angular application builder to build the application. The Angular application builder is specified in project.json