Is it somehow possible to use a gradle (sub) project as npm dependency?

# gradle

[hfhbd]

Is it somehow possible to use a gradle (sub) project as npm dependency?

[Adam S]

you mean using the npm() syntax, like this?

kotlin {
  sourceSets {
    jsMain {
      dependencies {
        implementation(npm("libpcre2x", "1.2.3"))
      }
    }
  }
}

because you can pass a file, instead of the version

implementation(npm("libpcre2x", file("local_node_modules/libpcre2x")))

so you’d just need some jiggery pokery to fetch the JS module from the other subproject

[hfhbd]

Yes. But instead referencing to a file, I want to use a Gradle project dependency, because Gradle needs to build the project first. Otherwise the package json file isn't found during fetching dependencies.

[hfhbd]

But I think, this needs to be implemented in the KGP plugin.

[Adam S]

would you expect a difference between using npm() and just adding a regular dependency, like this?

implementation(project(":some-other-subproject))

[hfhbd]

Yes, the normal implementation adds the subproject as source dependency, but I want to add it as a npm dependency and use the npm package with external.