medusa develop command does not work with medusa-extender[BUG] about medusa-extender

[adrien2p]

Thanks for that, as you mentioned it is not a bug, the medusa develop use its own entry file and this is also why there is a start script in your package.json as well as an entry point file named main.ts which is used to run the server and all that is part of the doc. All that is generated by the init command, If you want hot reloading you can use a simple nodemon command 🔥💪👍

[arkrozycki]

I'm fairly new to medusa and most if not all the documentation and articles reference the medusa develop command. I would suggest making a note of it in your documentation/site so that new comers do not assume it does not work. Which is where I was headed and about to discard medusa-extender as a dead project.

For what it's worth, I added the following command to my package.json file to handle reloads, might be helpful.

"start:local": "nodemon -e ts --ignore node_modules/ --ignore dist/ -w src/ -x 'npm run build && NODE_ENV=development node ./dist/main.js'"

Just run npm run start:local and you the server restarts on saves. So far it's working.

[adrien2p]

Thank you a lot for your feedback, the extender is a special package that require a minimum amount of knowledge on medusa before jumping straight in with the extender. The extender has its own cli to improve the dx with it and the init command populate the needed scripts to work with the extender along medusa itself. But, the medusa cli is only for medusa and the extender cli help your work with the extender and medusa together. Hope everything is more clear now and that you like it 😀