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Fresh new 1.7 Phoenix app inside umbrella fails build

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Fresh new 1.7 Phoenix app inside umbrella fails build

Background

I have a fresh umbrella app and I am trying to create a Phoenix app inside it. However, even though I can create the Phoenix app inside the umbrella, I cannot build it successfully.

Problem

I am creating a phoenix app inside a fresh umbrella project like this:

  1. mix new test_app --umbrella
  2. cd apps
  3. mix phx.new web_interface --no-dashboard --no-ecto --no-gettext --no-mailer --live

These commands run fine. However when I try to setup the app, something breaks:

  1. cd web_interface
  2. mix setup returns:

08:14:50.318 [warning] tailwind version is not configured. Please set it in your config files:

config :tailwind, :version, “3.2.4”

Browserslist: caniuse-lite is outdated. Please run:
npx update-browserslist-db@latest
Why you should do it regularly: GitHub - browserslist/update-db: CLI tool to update caniuse-lite to refresh target browsers from Browserslist config

Rebuilding…

To me, this is odd. Everything is fresh new, so I was really not expecting any warning. But it gets worse. Once rebuilding is done, I get an actual error:

Done in 200ms.

08:14:52.146 [warning] esbuild version is not configured. Please set it in your config files:

config :esbuild, :version, "0.16.4"

** (RuntimeError) no arguments passed to esbuild
(esbuild 0.7.0) lib/esbuild.ex:170: Esbuild.run/2
(esbuild 0.7.0) lib/mix/tasks/esbuild.ex:49: Mix.Tasks.Esbuild.install_and_run/1
(mix 1.14.1) lib/mix/task.ex:421: anonymous fn/3 in Mix.Task.run_task/4
(mix 1.14.1) lib/mix/task.ex:479: Mix.Task.run_alias/6
(mix 1.14.1) lib/mix/cli.ex:84: Mix.CLI.run_task/2

At first I thought this was happening because I had something outdated in my machine. So I did some updates:

  1. mix local.hex
  2. mix archive.install hex phx_new

However, this did not fix the issue.

I am running on Windows.

Questions

  1. It is my understanding that if I create a new app inside an umbrella project, elixir is smart enough to detect that and I don’t need to do anything new/different. Is this the case?
  2. IIRC the --live flag became a default in Phoenix 1.6. Is this still case for 1.7? (Meaning all apps are live now, by default?)
  3. Why am I getting this error? How can I fix it?
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Fl4m3Ph03n1x

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Answer

The issue here was that I was using an incorrect command when creating the Phoenix app. I was using mix phx.new instead of mix phx.new.web.

To me, this is rather confusing, as from the documentation/tutorials (https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/dependencies-and-umbrella-projects.html#umbrella-projects) we have this quote:

(…) First of all, since we generated this project inside kv_umbrella/apps, Mix automatically detected the umbrella structure (…)

Which states that when creating an app inside an umbrella project, Mix does have the capacity to detect it and act accordingly.

This does not hold true for Phoenix apps. For reasons beyond my understanding, Phoenix apps do not know their context and thus the user needs to tell mix that the new app will be inside an umbrella project.

This is confusing to me. Sometimes mix is smart enough to know, other times, it isn’t. I don’t know which times it knows and which times it doesn’t.

So, to conclude, given the original questions:

  1. Wrong. Mix detects umbrella projects when creating normal apps. When creating Phoenix apps, it detects nothing. The user must use mix phx.new.web. It is unclear when Mix is able to detect umbrella apps and when its not.
  2. --live flag is now default and not needed.
  3. Because I was creating the Phoenix app with an incorrect assumption and thus using the incorrect command.
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