fix: get auto type-gen to work on turbo, by running type gen in a child process outside turbo/webpack (#6714)

Before on turbo: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/66723

packages/next/src/utilities/getPayloadHMR.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import type { GeneratedTypes, Payload } from 'payload'
 import type { InitOptions, SanitizedConfig } from 'payload/config'
 
 import { BasePayload } from 'payload'
-import { generateTypes } from 'payload/bin'
 import WebSocket from 'ws'
 
 let cached: {
@@ -39,7 +38,12 @@ export const reload = async (config: SanitizedConfig, payload: Payload): Promise
 
   // Generate types
   if (config.typescript.autoGenerate !== false) {
-    void generateTypes(config, { log: false })
+    // We cannot run it directly here, as generate-types imports json-schema-to-typescript, which breaks on turbopack.
+    // see: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/66723
+    void payload.bin({
+      args: ['generate:types'],
+      log: false,
+    })
   }
 
   await payload.db.init()

packages/next/src/withPayload.js

@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ export const withPayload = (nextConfig = {}) => {
       'pino',
       'pino-pretty',
       'graphql',
-      'json-schema-to-typescript',
     ],
     webpack: (webpackConfig, webpackOptions) => {
       const incomingWebpackConfig =
@@ -84,7 +83,6 @@ export const withPayload = (nextConfig = {}) => {
           'drizzle-kit/payload',
           'sharp',
           'libsql',
-          'json-schema-to-typescript',
         ],
         ignoreWarnings: [
           ...(incomingWebpackConfig?.ignoreWarnings || []),

packages/next/webpack.config.js

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ const componentWebpackConfig = {
     'payload/config',
     'react-image-crop',
     'payload/operations',
-    'payload/bin',
   ],
   mode: 'production',
   module: {

packages/payload/bin.js

@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ import { register } from 'node:module'
 import path from 'node:path'
 import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from 'node:url'
 
-import { bin } from './dist/bin/index.js'
-
 // Allow disabling SWC for debugging
 if (process.env.DISABLE_SWC !== 'true') {
   const filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)
@@ -15,4 +13,9 @@ if (process.env.DISABLE_SWC !== 'true') {
   register('./dist/bin/loader/index.js', url)
 }
 
-bin()
+const start = async () => {
+  const { bin } = await import('./dist/bin/index.js')
+  bin()
+}
+
+void start()

packages/payload/src/config/find.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { findUpSync, pathExistsSync } from 'find-up'
-import fs from 'fs'
+import { getTsconfig } from 'get-tsconfig'
 import path from 'path'
 
 /**
@@ -12,37 +12,30 @@ const getTSConfigPaths = (): {
   outPath?: string
   rootPath?: string
   srcPath?: string
+  tsConfigPath?: string
 } => {
-  const tsConfigPath = findUpSync('tsconfig.json')
+  const tsConfigResult = getTsconfig()
-
+  const tsConfig = tsConfigResult.config
-  if (!tsConfigPath) {
+  const tsConfigDir = path.dirname(tsConfigResult.path)
-    return {
-      rootPath: process.cwd(),
-    }
-  }
 
   try {
-    // Read the file as a string and remove trailing commas
+    const rootConfigDir = path.resolve(tsConfigDir, tsConfig.compilerOptions.baseUrl || '')
-    const rawTsConfig = fs
-      .readFileSync(tsConfigPath, 'utf-8')
-      .replace(/,\s*\]/g, ']')
-      .replace(/,\s*\}/g, '}')
-
-    const tsConfig = JSON.parse(rawTsConfig)
-
-    const rootPath = process.cwd()
     const srcPath = tsConfig.compilerOptions?.rootDir || path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'src')
     const outPath = tsConfig.compilerOptions?.outDir || path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'dist')
-    const tsConfigDir = path.dirname(tsConfigPath)
+    let configPath = path.resolve(
-    let configPath = tsConfig.compilerOptions?.paths?.['@payload-config']?.[0]
+      rootConfigDir,
+      tsConfig.compilerOptions?.paths?.['@payload-config']?.[0],
+    )
+
     if (configPath) {
-      configPath = path.resolve(tsConfigDir, configPath)
+      configPath = path.resolve(rootConfigDir, configPath)
     }
     return {
       configPath,
       outPath,
-      rootPath,
+      rootPath: rootConfigDir,
       srcPath,
+      tsConfigPath: tsConfigResult.path,
     }
   } catch (error) {
     console.error(`Error parsing tsconfig.json: ${error}`) // Do not throw the error, as we can still continue with the other config path finding methods
@@ -70,6 +63,11 @@ export const findConfig = (): string => {
 
   const { configPath, outPath, rootPath, srcPath } = getTSConfigPaths()
 
+  // if configPath is absolute file, not folder, return it
+  if (path.extname(configPath) === '.js' || path.extname(configPath) === '.ts') {
+    return configPath
+  }
+
   const searchPaths =
     process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'
       ? [configPath, outPath, srcPath, rootPath]

packages/payload/src/exports/bin.ts

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * WARNING: This file contains exports that can only be safely used on the server.
- */
-
-export { generateTypes } from '../bin/generateTypes.js'

packages/payload/src/index.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ import type { ExecutionResult, GraphQLSchema, ValidationRule } from 'graphql'
 import type { OperationArgs, Request as graphQLRequest } from 'graphql-http'
 import type pino from 'pino'
 
+import { spawn } from 'child_process'
 import crypto from 'crypto'
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
+import path from 'path'
 
 import type { AuthArgs } from './auth/operations/auth.js'
 import type { Result as ForgotPasswordResult } from './auth/operations/forgotPassword.js'
@@ -47,7 +50,6 @@ import type { TypeWithVersion } from './versions/types.js'
 import { decrypt, encrypt } from './auth/crypto.js'
 import { APIKeyAuthentication } from './auth/strategies/apiKey.js'
 import { JWTAuthentication } from './auth/strategies/jwt.js'
-import { generateTypes } from './bin/generateTypes.js'
 import localOperations from './collections/operations/local/index.js'
 import { validateSchema } from './config/validate.js'
 import { consoleEmailAdapter } from './email/consoleEmailAdapter.js'
@@ -57,6 +59,9 @@ import flattenFields from './utilities/flattenTopLevelFields.js'
 import Logger from './utilities/logger.js'
 import { serverInit as serverInitTelemetry } from './utilities/telemetry/events/serverInit.js'
 
+const filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)
+const dirname = path.dirname(filename)
+
 /**
  * @description Payload
  */
@@ -302,6 +307,31 @@ export class BasePayload<TGeneratedTypes extends GeneratedTypes> {
     [slug: string]: any // TODO: Type this
   } = {}
 
+  async bin({
+    args,
+    cwd,
+    log,
+  }: {
+    args: string[]
+    cwd?: string
+    log?: boolean
+  }): Promise<{ code: number }> {
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      const spawned = spawn('node', [path.resolve(dirname, '../bin.js'), ...args], {
+        cwd,
+        stdio: log || log === undefined ? 'inherit' : 'ignore',
+      })
+
+      spawned.on('exit', (code) => {
+        resolve({ code })
+      })
+
+      spawned.on('error', (error) => {
+        reject(error)
+      })
+    })
+  }
+
   /**
    * @description delete one or more documents
    * @param options
@@ -366,7 +396,12 @@ export class BasePayload<TGeneratedTypes extends GeneratedTypes> {
 
     // Generate types on startup
     if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production' && this.config.typescript.autoGenerate !== false) {
-      void generateTypes(this.config, { log: false })
+      // We cannot run it directly here, as generate-types imports json-schema-to-typescript, which breaks on turbopack.
+      // see: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/66723
+      void this.bin({
+        args: ['generate:types'],
+        log: false,
+      })
     }
 
     this.db = this.config.db.init({ payload: this })

test/testHooks.js

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export const createTestHooks = async (testSuiteName = '_community') => {
       tsConfig.compilerOptions.paths['@payload-config'] = [`./test/${testSuiteName}/config.ts`]
       await writeFile(tsConfigPath, stringify(tsConfig, null, 2) + '\n')
 
-      process.env.PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH = path.resolve(testSuiteName, 'config')
+      process.env.PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH = path.resolve(dirname, testSuiteName, 'config.ts')
     },
   }
 }