# Introduction
While testing the sdk and overall apps in
https://github.com/prastoin/twenty-app-hello-world
Faced a lot of pure `CJS` external dependencies import issue
Replaced all the cjs deps to either esm equivalent or node native
replacement
## 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.
# Introduction
Allow a consumer call the commands programmatically instead of passing
by the exec
To do so extract from the command definition all the core logic, created
a new error api that allow keeping same error logs granularity than
before
## Usage
```ts
import { authLogin, appUninstall, functionExecute } from 'twenty-sdk/cli';
const result = await authLogin({
apiKey: 'my-key',
apiUrl: 'https://my-twenty.com',
});
if (!result.success) {
throw new Error(result.error);
}
```
## `app:build`
Introduced a new command that will allow building the whole project
without any watch setup
- Build and validate manifest
- Get or create app
- Synchronize manifest with twenty-sdk stub and no typecheck
- generate client
- Run typecheck
- Synchronize manifest again
- Fixes self host application
- add new telemetry information
- add serverId to identify a server instance
- remove .twenty from git tracking
- tree-shake "twenty-sdk" usage in built logic functions and front
components
- fix "twenty-sdk" version usage
- fix twenty-zapier cli
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Co-authored-by: cubic-dev-ai[bot] <191113872+cubic-dev-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
## Fix SDK first-run build failure when generated API client is missing
### Problem
When running `twenty app:dev` for the first time, the build pipeline
crashes because:
1. The esbuild front-component watcher tries to resolve
`twenty-sdk/generated`, but the generated API client doesn't exist yet —
it's only created later in the pipeline after syncing with the server.
2. The typecheck plugin (`tsc --noEmit`) runs as a blocking esbuild
`onStart` hook, so even with stub files, type errors on the empty client
classes (e.g. `Property 'query' does not exist on type 'CoreApiClient'`)
cause the build to fail before the real client can be generated.
This creates a chicken-and-egg problem: the watchers need the generated
client to build, but the client is generated after the watchers produce
their output.
### Solution
**1. Stub generated client on startup**
Added `ensureGeneratedClientStub` to `ClientService` that writes minimal
placeholder files (`CoreApiClient`, `MetadataApiClient`) into
`node_modules/twenty-sdk/generated/` if the directory doesn't already
exist. This is called in `DevModeOrchestrator.start()` before any
watchers are created, so the `twenty-sdk/generated` import always
resolves.
**2. Skip typecheck on first sync round**
Made the esbuild typecheck plugin accept a `shouldSkipTypecheck`
callback. The orchestrator starts with `skipTypecheck = true` and passes
`() => this.skipTypecheck` through the watcher chain. After the real API
client is generated, the flag is flipped to `false`, so subsequent
rebuilds enforce full type checking with the real generated types.
## Summary
- **Refactor frontend metadata loading architecture**: Split the
monolithic `EagerMetadataLoadEffect` into focused provider effects
(`UserMetadataProviderEffect`, `ObjectMetadataProviderEffect`,
`ViewMetadataProviderEffect`) orchestrated by `MetadataProviderEffects`.
Replaced `UserProvider` + `ObjectMetadataItemsProvider` with a single
`MetadataGater` that gates rendering on `isAppMetadataReadyState`. The
metadata store now validates view-object consistency before promoting
views, and `updateDraft` skips no-op updates via deep equality checks.
- **SDK CLI improvements**: Added `app:typecheck` command, improved
error handling in API sync (extracts GraphQL error messages), added
`serializeError` utility for human-readable error output, added `error`
file status to dev mode orchestrator with UI support, and fixed
ClickHouse migration/seed commands to use `transpile-only`.
## 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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## Add API client generation to SDK dev mode and refactor orchestrator
into step-based pipeline
### Why
The SDK dev mode lacked typed API client generation, forcing developers
to work without auto-generated GraphQL types when building applications.
Additionally, the orchestrator was a monolithic class that mixed watcher
management, token handling, and sync logic — making it difficult to
extend with new steps like client generation.
### How
- **Refactored the orchestrator** into a step-based pipeline with
dedicated classes: `CheckServer`, `EnsureValidTokens`,
`ResolveApplication`, `BuildManifest`, `UploadFiles`,
`GenerateApiClient`, `SyncApplication`, and `StartWatchers`. Each step
has typed input/output/status, managed by a new `OrchestratorState`
class.
- **Added `GenerateApiClientOrchestratorStep`** that detects
object/field schema changes and regenerates a typed GraphQL client (via
`@genql/cli`) into `node_modules/twenty-sdk/generated` for seamless
imports.
- **Replaced `checkApplicationExist`** with `findOneApplication` on both
server resolver and SDK API service, returning the entity data instead
of a boolean.
- **Added application token pair mutations**
(`generateApplicationToken`, `renewApplicationToken`) to the API
service, with the server now returning `ApplicationTokenPairDTO`
containing both access and refresh tokens.
- **Restructured the dev UI** into `dev/ui/components/` with dedicated
panel, section, and event log components.
- **Simplified `AppDevCommand`** from ~180 lines of watcher management
down to ~40 lines that delegate entirely to the orchestrator.
# 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
## Split twenty-sdk build into separate Node and browser targets
The SDK was bundling Node.js code (CLI, SDK API) and browser code (UI
components, front-component renderer) through a single Vite config. This
caused incorrect externalization — Node builtins leaked into browser
bundles and browser-specific chunking logic applied to CLI output.
This PR splits the build into `vite.config.node.ts` and
`vite.config.browser.ts` so each target gets the right externals and
output format.
Also includes a few housekeeping renames:
- `front-component` export path → `front-component-renderer` (matches
what it actually is)
- `front-component-common` merged into `front-component-api` (was a
needless extra module)
## PR Description
This PR:
- Introduces a `FrontComponentHostCommunicationApi`, which allows us to
pass functions to be executed from the worker
- Exposes a navigate function from the host to the front component
remote workers, enabling SDK components to trigger in-app navigation
- Gets rid of `useSyncExternalStore` and makes the execution context
reactive without it
- Refactors and improves the `esbuild` plugin system
## Video
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7b26a1c2-f85f-4898-a71d-f60c70e61711
Charles Bochet