Add support for standalone pages: a new `PageLayout` type
(`STANDALONE_PAGE`) that can be rendered independently at
`/page/:pageLayoutId`, not tied to any record or object context.
- New `STANDALONE_PAGE` page layout type
- New `PAGE_LAYOUT` navigation menu item type: adds a `pageLayoutId`
foreign key to `NavigationMenuItemEntity`, allowing sidebar items to
link directly to standalone pages
- New `GLOBAL_OBJECT_CONTEXT` command menu availability type: separates
object-context-dependent commands (Create Record, Import, Export, See
Deleted, Create View, Hide Deleted) from truly global ones, so
standalone pages only show relevant commands
- Frontend routing & rendering: adds a `/page/:pageLayoutId` route with
its own page component, header, and command menu
- Widget rendering refactor
- Instance commands: two fast 1.22 migrations: `pageLayoutId` column +
`STANDALONE_PAGE` enum, and `GLOBAL_OBJECT_CONTEXT` availability type
enum
- Workspace command: backfills existing command menu items from `GLOBAL`
to `GLOBAL_OBJECT_CONTEXT` where appropriate
- Dev seeds: adds a sample "Star History" standalone page with an iframe
widget for local development
## Summary
- Adds `isUnique?: boolean` to `RegularFieldManifest` in
`twenty-shared`, allowing SDK applications to declare unique constraints
on fields
- Updates the manifest-to-flat-field converter to read `isUnique` from
the manifest instead of hardcoding `false`
- Generates corresponding unique index metadata in
`computeApplicationManifestAllUniversalFlatEntityMaps` when a field has
`isUnique: true`, matching the behavior of the `CreateFieldInput` path
- Adds SDK-side validation rejecting `isUnique` on RELATION,
MORPH_RELATION, and FILES field types
- Adds integration test verifying manifest sync creates a unique index
for `isUnique` fields
- Adds SDK unit tests for `isUnique` validation on unsupported field
types
## Test plan
- [x] SDK unit tests: `defineField` accepts `isUnique: true` on TEXT,
rejects on RELATION and FILES
- [ ] Integration test: manifest sync with `isUnique: true` creates the
unique index in DB
- [ ] Verify `isUnique` defaults to `false` when not specified (backward
compatible)
- [ ] Verify standalone manifest fields (not nested in objects) also
generate unique indexes correctly
- removes pre-install function
- execute **asyncrhonously** post-install function at application
installation
- add optional `shouldRunOnVersionUpgrade` boolean value on post-install
function definition default false
- update PostInstallPayload to
```
export type PostInstallPayload = {
previousVersion?: string;
newVersion: string;
};
```
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## Summary
- **Make app-synced objects searchable**: `isSearchable` was hardcoded
to `false` and the `searchVector` field was missing the `GENERATED
ALWAYS AS (...)` expression, causing all records to have a `NULL` search
vector and be excluded from search results. Fixed by defaulting
`isSearchable` to `true` (configurable via the object manifest),
computing the `asExpression` from the label identifier field, and
allowing the update-field-action-handler to handle the `null` → defined
`asExpression` transition.
- **Make `isSearchable` updatable on an object**: The property had
`toCompare: false` in the entity properties configuration, so updates
via the API were silently ignored and never persisted. Fixed by setting
`toCompare: true`.
## 1. The `twenty-client-sdk` Package (Source of Truth)
The monorepo package at `packages/twenty-client-sdk` ships with:
- A **pre-built metadata client** (static, generated from a fixed
schema)
- A **stub core client** that throws at runtime (`CoreApiClient was not
generated...`)
- Both ESM (`.mjs`) and CJS (`.cjs`) bundles in `dist/`
- A `package.json` with proper `exports` map for
`twenty-client-sdk/core`, `twenty-client-sdk/metadata`, and
`twenty-client-sdk/generate`
## 2. Generation & Upload (Server-Side, at Migration Time)
**When**: `WorkspaceMigrationRunnerService.run()` executes after a
metadata schema change.
**What happens in `SdkClientGenerationService.generateAndStore()`**:
1. Copies the stub `twenty-client-sdk` package from the server's assets
(resolved via `SDK_CLIENT_PACKAGE_DIRNAME` — from
`dist/assets/twenty-client-sdk/` in production, or from `node_modules`
in dev)
2. Filters out `node_modules/` and `src/` during copy — only
`package.json` + `dist/` are kept (like an npm publish)
3. Calls `replaceCoreClient()` which uses `@genql/cli` to introspect the
**application-scoped** GraphQL schema and generates a real
`CoreApiClient`, then compiles it to ESM+CJS and overwrites
`dist/core.mjs` and `dist/core.cjs`
4. Archives the **entire package** (with `package.json` + `dist/`) into
`twenty-client-sdk.zip`
5. Uploads the single archive to S3 under
`FileFolder.GeneratedSdkClient`
6. Sets `isSdkLayerStale = true` on the `ApplicationEntity` in the
database
## 3. Invalidation Signal
The `isSdkLayerStale` boolean column on `ApplicationEntity` is the
invalidation mechanism:
- **Set to `true`** by `generateAndStore()` after uploading a new client
archive
- **Checked** by both logic function drivers before execution — if
`true`, they rebuild their local layer
- **Set back to `false`** by `markSdkLayerFresh()` after the driver has
successfully consumed the new archive
Default is `false` so existing applications without a generated client
aren't affected.
## 4a. Logic Functions — Local Driver
**`ensureSdkLayer()`** is called before every execution:
1. Checks if the local SDK layer directory exists AND `isSdkLayerStale`
is `false` → early return
2. Otherwise, cleans the local layer directory
3. Calls `downloadAndExtractToPackage()` which streams the zip from S3
directly to disk and extracts the full package into
`<tmpdir>/sdk/<workspaceId>-<appId>/node_modules/twenty-client-sdk/`
4. Calls `markSdkLayerFresh()` to set `isSdkLayerStale = false`
**At execution time**, `assembleNodeModules()` symlinks everything from
the deps layer's `node_modules/` **except** `twenty-client-sdk`, which
is symlinked from the SDK layer instead. This ensures the logic
function's `import ... from 'twenty-client-sdk/core'` resolves to the
generated client.
## 4b. Logic Functions — Lambda Driver
**`ensureSdkLayer()`** is called during `build()`:
1. Checks if `isSdkLayerStale` is `false` and an existing Lambda layer
ARN exists → early return
2. Otherwise, deletes all existing layer versions for this SDK layer
name
3. Calls `downloadArchiveBuffer()` to get the raw zip from S3 (no disk
extraction)
4. Calls `reprefixZipEntries()` which streams the zip entries into a
**new zip** with the path prefix
`nodejs/node_modules/twenty-client-sdk/` — this is the Lambda layer
convention path. All done in memory, no disk round-trip
5. Publishes the re-prefixed zip as a new Lambda layer via
`publishLayer()`
6. Calls `markSdkLayerFresh()`
**At function creation**, the Lambda is created with **two layers**:
`[depsLayerArn, sdkLayerArn]`. The SDK layer is listed last so it
overwrites the stub `twenty-client-sdk` from the deps layer (later
layers take precedence in Lambda's `/opt` merge).
## 5. Front Components
Front components are built by `app:build` with `twenty-client-sdk/core`
and `twenty-client-sdk/metadata` as **esbuild externals**. The stored
`.mjs` in S3 has unresolved bare import specifiers like `import {
CoreApiClient } from 'twenty-client-sdk/core'`.
SDK import resolution is split between the **frontend host** (fetching &
caching SDK modules) and the **Web Worker** (rewriting imports):
**Server endpoints**:
- `GET /rest/front-components/:id` —
`FrontComponentService.getBuiltComponentStream()` returns the **raw
`.mjs`** directly from file storage. No bundling, no SDK injection.
- `GET /rest/sdk-client/:applicationId/:moduleName` —
`SdkClientController` reads a single file (e.g. `dist/core.mjs`) from
the generated SDK archive via
`SdkClientGenerationService.readFileFromArchive()` and serves it as
JavaScript.
**Frontend host** (`FrontComponentRenderer` in `twenty-front`):
1. Queries `FindOneFrontComponent` which returns `applicationId`,
`builtComponentChecksum`, `usesSdkClient`, and `applicationTokenPair`
2. If `usesSdkClient` is `true`, renders
`FrontComponentRendererWithSdkClient` which calls the
`useApplicationSdkClient` hook
3. `useApplicationSdkClient({ applicationId, accessToken })` checks the
Jotai atom family cache for existing blob URLs. On cache miss, fetches
both SDK modules from `GET /rest/sdk-client/:applicationId/core` and
`/metadata`, creates **blob URLs** for each, and stores them in the atom
family
4. Once the blob URLs are cached, passes them as `sdkClientUrls`
(already blob URLs, not server URLs) to `SharedFrontComponentRenderer` →
`FrontComponentWorkerEffect` → worker's `render()` call via
`HostToWorkerRenderContext`
**Worker** (`remote-worker.ts` in `twenty-sdk`):
1. Fetches the raw component `.mjs` source as text
2. If `sdkClientUrls` are provided and the source contains SDK import
specifiers (`twenty-client-sdk/core`, `twenty-client-sdk/metadata`),
**rewrites** the bare specifiers to the blob URLs received from the host
(e.g. `'twenty-client-sdk/core'` → `'blob:...'`)
3. Creates a blob URL for the rewritten source and `import()`s it
4. Revokes only the component blob URL after the module is loaded — the
SDK blob URLs are owned and managed by the host's Jotai cache
This approach eliminates server-side esbuild bundling on every request,
caches SDK modules per application in the frontend, and keeps the
worker's job to a simple string rewrite.
## Summary Diagram
```
app:build (SDK)
└─ twenty-client-sdk stub (metadata=real, core=stub)
│
▼
WorkspaceMigrationRunnerService.run()
└─ SdkClientGenerationService.generateAndStore()
├─ Copy stub package (package.json + dist/)
├─ replaceCoreClient() → regenerate core.mjs/core.cjs
├─ Zip entire package → upload to S3
└─ Set isSdkLayerStale = true
│
┌────────┴────────────────────┐
▼ ▼
Logic Functions Front Components
│ │
├─ Local Driver ├─ GET /rest/sdk-client/:appId/core
│ └─ downloadAndExtract │ → core.mjs from archive
│ → symlink into │
│ node_modules ├─ Host (useApplicationSdkClient)
│ │ ├─ Fetch SDK modules
└─ Lambda Driver │ ├─ Create blob URLs
└─ downloadArchiveBuffer │ └─ Cache in Jotai atom family
→ reprefixZipEntries │
→ publish as Lambda ├─ GET /rest/front-components/:id
layer │ → raw .mjs (no bundling)
│
└─ Worker (browser)
├─ Fetch component .mjs
├─ Rewrite imports → blob URLs
└─ import() rewritten source
```
## Next PR
- Estimate perf improvement by implementing a redis caching for front
component client storage ( we don't even cache front comp initially )
- Implem frontent blob invalidation sse event from server
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- Adds template variable interpolation (`${...}`) to command menu item
labels and short labels, enabling dynamic text like `Create new
${capitalize(objectMetadataItem.labelSingular)}` instead of static
`Create new record`.
- Supports `capitalize` and `lowercase` transform functions within
template expressions.
## Summary
- Adds a `color` column to `ObjectMetadataEntity` with full GraphQL
support so object icon colors are persisted at the metadata level
- Adds a `type` column to `NavigationMenuItemEntity` (enum: `OBJECT`,
`VIEW`, `FOLDER`, `LINK`, `RECORD`) replacing field-based type inference
- Updates frontend to read object colors from `objectMetadata.color`
(falling back to standard defaults) in the sidebar nav, record index
header, and record show breadcrumb
- Simplifies `NavigationMenuItemIcon` color resolution via
`getEffectiveNavigationMenuItemColor` util
## Color rules
| Item type | Color source | Editable in sidebar? |
|-----------|-------------|---------------------|
| **Object** | `objectMetadata.color` | Yes — persisted to
`objectMetadata.color` on Save |
| **Folder** | `navigationMenuItem.color` | Yes |
| **Link** | Fixed default (`DEFAULT_NAVIGATION_MENU_ITEM_COLOR_LINK`) |
No |
| **View** | `objectMetadata.color` (from the parent object) | No |
| **Record** | None | No |
- **Object** items represent the whole object (e.g. "Companies") and
point to the INDEX view. Changing their color updates
`objectMetadata.color` via `useSaveObjectMetadataColorsFromDraft`.
- **View** items represent specific non-INDEX views. Their color comes
from the parent object's metadata (read-only).
- Only **folders** store their color on `navigationMenuItem.color` —
enforced by `hasNavigationMenuItemOwnColor` util.
- `getEffectiveNavigationMenuItemColor` returns `objectColor` for both
OBJECT and VIEW items, folder's own color for folders, and the fixed
default for links.
## NavigationMenuItemType enum
- Shared enum created in `twenty-shared` with values: `OBJECT`, `VIEW`,
`FOLDER`, `LINK`, `RECORD`
- Registered as a GraphQL enum on the backend
- Replaces string literals across entity, DTOs, input, converters, and
frontend hooks
- Migration backfills existing rows: INDEX views → `OBJECT`, non-INDEX
views → `VIEW`, based on join with the view table
## Design decisions
- **OBJECT vs VIEW distinction**: Items pointing to INDEX views are
typed as `OBJECT` (represent the whole object, color editable). Items
pointing to non-INDEX views are typed as `VIEW` (specific view, color
read-only from parent object).
- **Dual color storage**: `navigationMenuItem.color` is preserved for
folders only. Objects use `objectMetadata.color` as their source of
truth.
- **Type discriminator**: The `type` column replaces field-based
inference (checking `viewId`, `link`, `targetRecordId` presence) with an
explicit enum, simplifying `isNavigationMenuItemLink` /
`isNavigationMenuItemFolder` to simple `item.type ===` checks.
- **No settings page color picker**: Object color editing is done from
the sidebar edit panel, not the data model settings page.
## Test plan
- [ ] Verify objects display their default standard colors in the
sidebar
- [ ] Verify object color editing works in the sidebar edit panel
(persists to objectMetadata.color)
- [ ] Verify folder color editing works in the sidebar edit panel
- [ ] Verify views, links, and records do NOT show a color picker in the
sidebar edit panel
- [ ] Run `npx nx typecheck twenty-front` and `npx nx typecheck
twenty-server`
- [ ] Verify the database migrations add `color` to `objectMetadata` and
`type` to `navigationMenuItem`
Made with [Cursor](https://cursor.com)
## Add standard command menu items
### Summary
This PR introduces standard command menu items, migrating hardcoded
command menu actions to the backend command menu item architecture
powered by front components. It adds a new `twenty-standard-application`
package that defines, builds, and registers front components as standard
command menu items, gated behind the `IS_COMMAND_MENU_ITEM_ENABLED`
feature flag.
### Description
- **New `twenty-standard-application` package**: Contains front
component definitions with an esbuild-based build pipeline that
generates minified `.mjs` bundles and a manifest with checksums.
- **Server-side registration**: New constants register all items with
metadata (labels, icons, positions, availability types, conditional
expressions). A `StandardFrontComponentUploadService` uploads built
components to file storage.
- **`FALLBACK` availability type**: New enum value for command menu
items that appear as fallback options (e.g., "Search Records" fallback).
- **`CommandMenuContextApi` refactor**
- **Conditional availability enhancements**: New array-based helper
functions for evaluating multi-record conditions.
- **Frontend wiring** (twenty-front):
`useCommandMenuItemFrontComponentCommands`
## Next steps
Only simple commands have been implemented for now:
- **Navigation (9)** -- `CommandLink`: go-to-companies,
go-to-dashboards, go-to-notes, go-to-opportunities, go-to-people,
go-to-runs, go-to-settings, go-to-tasks, go-to-workflows
- **Side panel (4)** -- `CommandOpenSidePanelPage`: ask-ai,
search-records, search-records-fallback, view-previous-ai-chats
We still have to implement front components for all the following
commands:
All have placeholder `execute` logic (`async () => {}`) with a `// TODO:
implement execute logic` comment:
**Record (22)**
- `add-to-favorites`, `remove-from-favorites`
- `create-new-record`, `create-new-view`
- `delete-single-record`, `delete-multiple-records`
- `destroy-single-record`, `destroy-multiple-records`
- `restore-single-record`, `restore-multiple-records`
- `export-from-record-index`, `export-from-record-show`,
`export-multiple-records`, `export-note-to-pdf`, `export-view`
- `hide-deleted-records`, `see-deleted-records`
- `import-records`, `merge-multiple-records`, `update-multiple-records`
- `navigate-to-next-record`, `navigate-to-previous-record`
**Page layout (3)** -- `cancel-record-page-layout`,
`edit-record-page-layout`, `save-record-page-layout`
**Dashboard (4)** -- `cancel-dashboard-layout`, `duplicate-dashboard`,
`edit-dashboard-layout`, `save-dashboard-layout`
**Workflow (10)** -- `activate-workflow`, `add-node-workflow`,
`deactivate-workflow`, `discard-draft-workflow`, `duplicate-workflow`,
`see-active-version-workflow`, `see-runs-workflow`,
`see-versions-workflow`, `test-workflow`, `tidy-up-workflow`
**Workflow version (4)** -- `see-runs-workflow-version`,
`see-versions-workflow-version`, `see-workflow-workflow-version`,
`use-as-draft-workflow-version`
**Workflow run (3)** -- `see-version-workflow-run`,
`see-workflow-workflow-run`, `stop-workflow-run`
## Summary
This PR improves Linaria/WYW pre-build speed and continues the migration
of `twenty-ui` components away from runtime `ThemeContext` reads toward
static CSS variables and theme constants.
### Linaria/WYW profiling plugin improvements (`twenty-shared`)
- **Babel JIT warmup**: added a `buildStart` warmup step that triggers
WYW's Babel JIT compilation before the real build starts, so the first
real file doesn't pay the cold-start penalty
- **`configResolved` hook**: detects dev vs prod mode and resolves the
correct warmup file path relative to `config.root`
- **Dev-only per-file logging**: slow file warnings are now gated behind
`isDevMode`, keeping production/CI build output clean
- **`closeBundle` summary**: moved the final top-slow-files report to
`closeBundle` for accurate end-of-build reporting
- **Removed noisy progress interval logging** in favor of the warmup log
+ final summary
### Migration from `ThemeContext` to static CSS variables / constants
Across `twenty-ui`, replaced runtime `useTheme()` reads with:
- `themeCssVariables` CSS custom properties (colors, spacing)
- Hard-coded design-system constants (`ICON.size.md` → `16`,
`ICON.stroke.sm` → `1.6`) so components no longer need a React context
at render time — enabling Linaria static extraction
**Components migrated:**
- `Button`, `AnimatedButton`, `LightButton`, `LightIconButton`,
`AnimatedLightIconButton`, `ButtonIcon`, `ButtonSoon`
- `ProgressBar` (Framer Motion width animation → CSS `transition`)
- `Info`, `HorizontalSeparator`, `LinkChip`
- `MenuPicker`, `MenuItemLeftContent`, `MenuItemIconWithGripSwap`,
`NavigationBarItem`
- `JsonArrow`, `JsonNestedNode`
- `ModalHeader`
### Other
- Added `aria-valuenow` to `ProgressBar` for accessibility
- `VisibilityHidden` component updated to inline accessibility styles
## PR Description
- Uses `expr-eval` to enable front components (SDK plugins) to define
conditional availability as declarative expressions.
- Moves shared types and constants to `twenty-shared`
- Introduces a `conditionalAvailabilityExpression` field on
`CommandMenuItemEntity`, allowing command menu items to store an
`expr-eval` compatible expression string that is evaluated against a
CommandMenuContext to determine if the item should be shown.
- Creates an esbuild transform plugin
`conditional-availability-transform-plugin` in `twenty-sdk` that
converts TypeScript conditional availability expressions into
`expr-eval` compatible syntax at build time, so SDK developers can write
natural TS expressions that get transformed to evaluable strings.
- Removes deprecated `forceRegisteredActionsByKey` state and its usage.
- Creates `useCommandMenuContext` hook that builds the full
`CommandMenuContext` object from React state, which is then passed to
`useCommandMenuItemFrontComponentActions` for evaluating conditional
availability expressions.
Adds color support for navigation menu items.
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## Description
- Add `isHeadless` field to `FrontComponent` entity so front components
can run without rendering UI in the command menu
- Introduce headless front component mounting logic:
`HeadlessFrontComponentMountRoot` at the application root,
`useMountHeadlessFrontComponent`, and `useUnmountHeadlessFrontComponent`
hooks to mount/unmount headless components
- Expand the SDK with new action components (`Action`, `ActionLink`,
`ActionOpenSidePanelPage`) and host communication functions
(`openSidePanelPage`, `unmountFrontComponent`)
- Move `CommandMenuPages` type to twenty-shared so the SDK can reference
it for side panel navigation
## Video QA
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4f9e3bb1-fcd1-42be-b3f4-a97e80c2add2
## Description
- Adds support for declaring command menu items directly within
`defineFrontComponent` via an optional command config property
- Introduces a new `CommandMenuItemManifest` type in twenty-shared and
wires it through the manifest build pipeline
## Example Of usage
```tsx
import { defineFrontComponent } from "twenty-sdk";
const TestAction = () => {
return <div>Test Action</div>;
};
export default defineFrontComponent({
universalIdentifier: "6c289461-0007-4a62-a99f-69e5c11a4ce7",
name: "test-action",
description: "Test Action",
component: TestAction,
command: {
universalIdentifier: "c07df864-495f-46f3-9f5b-9d3ce2589e9b",
label: "Run My Action",
icon: "IconBolt",
isPinned: false,
},
});
```
## Video QA
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f910fc6a-44a9-45d1-87c5-f0ce64bb3878
## Refactor page layout widget types into shared package and expose from
SDK
### Why
Widget configuration types were defined only on the server, forcing SDK
consumer apps to import from deep internal `twenty-shared/dist` paths —
fragile and breaks on structural changes. Server DTOs also had no
compile-time guarantee they matched the canonical types.
### What changed
- **`twenty-shared`**: Migrated `ChartFilter`, `GridPosition`,
`RatioAggregateConfig` and all 20 widget configuration variants into
`twenty-shared/types`. `PageLayoutWidgetConfiguration` (base, with
`SerializedRelation`) and `PageLayoutWidgetUniversalConfiguration`
(derived via `FormatRecordSerializedRelationProperties`) are now the
single source of truth.
- **`twenty-sdk`**: Re-exported `AggregateOperations`,
`ObjectRecordGroupByDateGranularity`, `PageLayoutTabLayoutMode`, and
`PageLayoutWidgetUniversalConfiguration` so consumer apps import from
`twenty-sdk` directly.
- **`twenty-server`**: All widget DTOs now `implements` their shared
type for compile-time enforcement. Added helpers to convert nested
`fieldMetadataId` ↔ `fieldMetadataUniversalIdentifier` inside chart
filters. Removed redundant local type re-exports.
## Sync page layouts, tabs, and widgets
Adds the ability for SDK applications to synchronize `pageLayout`,
`pageLayoutTab`, and `pageLayoutWidget` entities, following the same
pattern established in #18003 for views and navigation menu items.
### Changes
**`twenty-shared`**
- New `PageLayoutManifest`, `PageLayoutTabManifest`, and
`PageLayoutWidgetManifest` types with a hierarchical structure (page
layout → tabs → widgets)
- Added `pageLayouts: PageLayoutManifest[]` to the `Manifest` type
**`twenty-sdk`**
- New `definePageLayout()` SDK function with validation for
universalIdentifier, name, and nested tabs/widgets
- Wired into the manifest extraction and build pipeline
(`DefinePageLayout` target function, `PageLayouts` entity key)
- Exported from the SDK entry point
**`twenty-server`**
- Added `pageLayout`, `pageLayoutTab`, `pageLayoutWidget` to
`APPLICATION_MANIFEST_METADATA_NAMES`
- New conversion utilities: manifest → universal flat entity for all
three entity types
- Updated `computeApplicationManifestAllUniversalFlatEntity
- add a new optional key `postInstallLogicFunctionUniversalIdentifier`
in applicationConfig
- seed postInstall function in create-twenty-app
- update execute:function options
- update doc
## Summary
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1e75cc9d-d9d2-4ef2-99f9-34450f5d8de7
Add background incremental type checking (`tsc --watch`) to the SDK dev
mode, so type regressions are caught when the generated API client
changes — without requiring a full rebuild of source files.
Previously, removing a field from the data model would regenerate the
API client, but existing front components/logic functions referencing
the removed field wouldn't surface type errors (since their source
didn't change, esbuild wouldn't rebuild them).
## What changed
- **Background `tsc --watch`**: a long-lived TypeScript watcher runs
alongside esbuild watchers, incrementally re-checking all files when the
generated client changes. Only logs on state transitions (errors appear
/ errors clear) to stay quiet.
- **Atomic client generation**: API client is now generated into a temp
directory and swapped in atomically, avoiding a race condition where
`tsc --watch` could see an empty `generated/` directory
mid-regeneration.
- **Step decoupling**: orchestrator steps no longer receive
`uploadFilesStep` directly. Instead, they use callbacks (`onFileBuilt`,
`onApiClientGenerated`), and each step manages its own `builtFileInfos`
state.
- **`apiClientChecksum` omitted from `ApplicationConfig`**: it's a
build-time computed value, same as `packageJsonChecksum`.
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/02bd25bb-fa41-42b0-8d96-01c51bd4580c"
/>
<img width="529" height="452" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/61f6e968-365b-4a5b-8f2b-a8419d6b1bd3"
/>
# Introduction
In this PR we start returning a workspace migration post sync so it can
committed and provided within the tarball
## Universal aggregators utils
Created two utils
### deleteUniversalFlatEntityForeignKeyAggregators
Used when building a universal create action, a newly created actions
should not contain any aggregated foreign key so they won't be codegen
in the workspace migration but also they are overriden at uninversal to
flat transpilation anw
### resetUniversalFlatEntityForeignKeyAggregators
Used before validating a new flat entity creation, some validator will
consume the fk aggregator in order to validate integrity, but of
optimstically provided it can result to errors. To avoid caller
responsability we override them here
## create-field-action refactor
Refactored the universal and flat field create action to be following
the base actions in order to ease typing
Also it was tailored to handle unlimited amount of flat field metadata
in the same actions whereas in the reality we were always only sending
at max 2 ( for relation fields )
Note: relation field has to be provided at the same as if not optimistic
would fail to retrieve circular universal identifiers
## ObjectManifest
Now always expect a `labelIdentifierFieldMetadataUniversalIdentifier`
## Integration test
Created an integration test that creates an app, sync a first manifest
and a second implying update workspace migration action generation
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c4e63edb-6e98-44bc-841f-ee110ae712d4
How it works
- `manifest.json` files are now committed when apps are published to our
repo
- to display available apps, from the server, we read into our github
repo, using a pod-scoped cache
- feature flagged
- app installation will be behind permission gate MARKETPLACE_APPS
Limitations and what is yet to develop
- content and settings tabs
- installed apps tab
- app installation
- test and potentially fix reading from .manifest.json once [Reshape
manifest
structure](https://github.com/twentyhq/core-team-issues/issues/2183) is
done. additional work is expected on assets notably. (couldnt properly
do it here as manifest.json will only be committed after this pr)
- we only read in community/ folder for now - we may want tochange that
- the cache is rather artisanal for now and scoped by pod - we may want
to change that
## Refactor app-dev state management and build utilities
- Store only `manifest` in `AppDevState` instead of full
`ManifestBuildResult`; add `sourcePath` to `FileStatus`
- Pass `sourcePaths` directly to watchers instead of
`ManifestBuildResult`
- Only reset `fileUploadStatus` for functions/components when their
source paths change
- Add pure `updateManifestChecksum` utility that returns a new manifest
without side effects
- Extract `processEsbuildResult` to deduplicate build result processing
between watchers
- Rename `serverlessFunctions` → `functions` in SDK code (API unchanged)
- Extract `writeManifestToOutput` to shared `manifest-writer.ts`
## Summary
Adds `app:build` command as a one-shot version of `app:dev` - builds
manifest, functions, and front components once then exits (no watching).
**Changes:**
- Added `watch` option to `FunctionsWatcher` and
`FrontComponentsWatcher` to support both watch and one-shot modes
- Created `AppBuildCommand` reusing the same build logic as `app:dev`
with `watch: false`
- Added integration tests for `app:build` on both `rich-app` and
`root-app`
- Updated manifest types: `handlerPath` → `sourceHandlerPath` +
`builtHandlerPath`, `componentPath` → `sourceComponentPath` +
`builtComponentPath`
- Updated test app `package.json` scripts to match `create-twenty-app`
template
Summary
- Serverless functions are now built when created/updated instead of at
execution time
- Added builtHandlerPath field to track pre-built function artifacts
- Renamed base-typescript-project to seed-project with pre-built ESM
output included
- Renamed file folder enums for consistency (Functions → BuiltFunction,
SourceCode → Source)
- supports backwards compatibility with existing serverless functions
Tested with all combinations
- storage : local driver and S3 driver
- serverless : local driver and lambda driver