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Charles Bochet a7324252fd fix(twenty-server): stop the yarn-install Lambda from running out of memory (#23805)
## Context

Sentry issue
[7438578272](https://twenty-v7.sentry.io/issues/7438578272/) (Logic
Function Layer Build Failed, 7.9K events over 3 months): the
yarn-install tool Lambda dies with `Runtime.OutOfMemory` / `signal:
killed` while building an application's dependency layer. Every layer
build for the affected application fails permanently, each
database-event trigger re-attempts it, and one workspace produced ~2.5K
events in the last week alone.

## Root cause

The offending application declares `twenty-ui@1.0.0-alpha.0` (181MB
unpacked, dragging in 141MB of `@tabler/icons*`) and dev tooling as
production `dependencies` of server-side logic functions. Installing
that tree needs just under 3GB during Yarn 4's fetch/link phase, so the
1024MB sandbox is OOM-killed. And even a successful install could never
ship: AWS caps a function plus all its layers at 250MB unzipped.

The user never sees any of this: the OOM is retried forever, and nothing
tells them their dependencies are the problem.

## Fix

1. **Raise the yarn-install Lambda to 4096MB** so legitimate dependency
trees install. Tool function names now include the
memory/timeout/ephemeral-storage constants in their content hash, so a
config change rotates the function name and the ensure path creates a
fresh function with the new configuration — without this, the constant
change would never reach already-deployed functions (their config is
only applied at creation, and the ensure path early-returns when the
function exists).
2. **Propagate Lambda's own errors to the user.** The install OOM
(`Runtime.OutOfMemory` on the invoke) and the layer size rejection
(`InvalidParameterValueException` at `PublishLayerVersion`) map to a new
`LOGIC_FUNCTION_DEPENDENCIES_SIZE_EXCEEDED` code telling the user to
move packages their logic functions don't import out of `dependencies`.
Surfacing per API boundary:
- **Sync / install (CLI)**: the workspace migration interceptor formats
it into the same metadata validation error shape the SDK already
renders, as one `logicFunction` entry carrying the remedy and the
underlying AWS detail — no SDK rendering changes needed.
- **`executeOneLogicFunction`**: mapped to `UserInputError` in the
GraphQL handler.
- **Route triggers**: HTTP 422 with the user-facing message, no Sentry
capture.
- **Background triggers**: skip instead of retrying, since no retry can
succeed until the user changes their application.

## Test

The error originates in AWS behavior, which CI (local driver, no AWS)
cannot reproduce — so the chain is verified link by link:

- **Real AWS, manual (not in CI)**: reproduced with the offending
application's actual package.json against real Lambdas in the dev
account — OOM-killed at 1024MB and 2048MB (exact prod error signature),
install succeeds at 4096MB (~4min), and the resulting 292MB layer is
rejected by `PublishLayerVersion` with the exact
`InvalidParameterValueException` this PR matches. Same matrix reproduced
in local cgroups beforehand.
- **Server unit specs**: AWS error payload → exception mapping
(`build-yarn-install-failure-exception`), exception → validation payload
formatting (interceptor handler), `executeOneLogicFunction` GraphQL
mapping, route filter 422 mapping, tool-function/layer name hashing.
- **SDK integration spec (mocked server)**: runs the real `app dev`
orchestrator on the minimal app with `syncApplication` mocked to return
the validation-shaped failure, and asserts the CLI report renders the
error code and remedy. It covers CLI rendering only — no test installs
actual oversized dependencies, by design.
- Docs updated (dependency size limits, sync failure taxonomy, route
platform error responses).
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---
title: Project Structure
description: What's inside a scaffolded Twenty app — files, folders, and what each one does.
icon: "folder-tree"
---
A new app generated by `npx create-twenty-app` looks like this:
```text filename="my-twenty-app/"
my-twenty-app/
package.json
src/
application-config.ts # Required — your app's entry point
default-role.ts # Permissions for logic functions
constants/
universal-identifiers.ts # Auto-generated UUIDs and metadata
front-components/
main-page.tsx # Welcome page component
navigation-menu-items/
main-page.navigation-menu-item.ts # Sidebar entry for the welcome page
page-layouts/
main-page.page-layout.ts # Standalone page hosting the component
__tests__/
application-config.test.ts # Unit test
global-setup.ts # Integration test setup (sync + uninstall)
schema.integration-test.ts # Integration test against a live server
.github/workflows/
ci.yml # Lint, typecheck, unit + integration tests
cd.yml # Deploy + install on push to main
publish.yml # Publish to npm on version tags (with provenance)
public/
logo.svg # Static assets
vitest.config.ts # Integration test runner config
vitest.unit.config.ts # Unit test runner config
tsconfig.json, tsconfig.spec.json
.nvmrc, .yarnrc.yml, .oxlintrc.json
README.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, CHANGELOG.md, SETUP.md
```
## Key files
| File / Folder | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `src/application-config.ts` | **Required.** The main configuration file for your app. |
| `src/default-role.ts` | Default role controlling what your logic functions can access. |
| `src/constants/universal-identifiers.ts` | Auto-generated UUIDs and metadata (display name, description). |
| `src/front-components/`, `src/navigation-menu-items/`, `src/page-layouts/` | A starter welcome page: a front component rendered by a standalone page layout, reachable from the sidebar. |
| `src/__tests__/` | A unit test plus an integration test (with its global setup) that syncs the app against a real server. |
| `public/` | Static assets (images, fonts) served with your app. |
| `AGENTS.md` / `CLAUDE.md` | Guidance for AI coding agents working on the app. |
| `CHANGELOG.md` / `SETUP.md` | Changelog of notable changes and setup instructions for local development. |
<Note>
**File organization is up to you.** The folders above are conventions — the SDK detects entities via AST analysis on `export default defineEntity(...)` calls regardless of where the file lives.
</Note>
## Dependencies
Both Twenty SDK packages belong under `devDependencies`, not `dependencies`:
```json filename="package.json"
{
"dependencies": {},
"devDependencies": {
"twenty-client-sdk": "2.20.0",
"twenty-sdk": "2.20.0",
"twenty-ui": "1.0.0-alpha.1"
}
}
```
The scaffolder pins `twenty-sdk` and `twenty-client-sdk` to its own version — keep the two in sync when upgrading.
- **`twenty-sdk`** ships the `twenty` CLI and the build/scaffolding tooling. It only runs at development and build time and is never imported by your published app's runtime.
- **`twenty-client-sdk`** _is_ imported by your app code (`CoreApiClient`, `MetadataApiClient`, `RestApiClient`), but Twenty provides it at runtime — logic functions get it from a generated SDK layer, and front components resolve it from server-served modules. Your installed copy is only used for typechecking and the deploy-time build, so it never needs to ship in the deployed bundle.
Keeping either package under `dependencies` pulls it into the installed app's runtime bundle, where it is dead weight. `twenty dev:build` emits a warning when either is still listed under `dependencies`.
Add your app's own runtime dependencies (libraries your logic functions actually import at runtime) under `dependencies` as usual. Keep the tree lean: `dependencies` are installed into a runtime layer capped at 250MB unpacked, and a sync or install fails with a dependencies size error beyond that — UI libraries and dev tooling belong in `devDependencies`.