Unexpected task dependencies when using moon ci

[airtonix]

i have this kind of setup

• apps/the-app
  • type: application
  • task: dev
  • task: build
  • task: deploy
  • task: lint
  • task: test
• pkgs/ui
  • type: library
  • task: lint
  • task: test
  • task: build

in my .moon/tasks/node.yml there is :

implicitDeps:
  - "^:build"

when I run:

• moon run the-app:build
  • ui:build runs first then the the-app:build ✅
• moon run ui:build
  • only ui:build runs ✅
• moon ci ui:build
  • unexpectdly, pretty much the entire monorepos tasks runs, but more disastrously the-app:deploy runs. 💥 👎🏻 🔴

If i remove implicitDeps then :

• it no longer seemingly runs every task in the monorepo. but more importantly, i'm not deploying everytime i end up running moon ci ui:build in a PR.

• I now have to manually annotate relevant tasks with deps.

Did I miss something?

[airtonix]

I think said another way :

I only ever want :deploy to run if i run it directly with either:

moon ci :deploy

or

moon run :deploy --affected

or

moon run the-app:deploy

[milesj]

@airtonix moon ci will run deep upstream (dependencies) and downstream (dependents) by default. This exists to run regression testing for changes.

You probably want to disable this setting for your deploy tasks: https://moonrepo.dev/docs/config/project#runinci Since deploy tasks aren't CI tasks. moon ci is meant for CI testing, linting, etc. That stuff that happens in PRs. So yeah use moon run for deploys.

[airtonix]

But that means I can't use moon ci for anything else then.

I really want to combine release please and moon :deploy --affected in my workflow that runs release please, but I still want to use moon ci :yada :yada on my workflow that's run in prs

[milesj]

You can do exactly that.

Set runInCI = false on the deploy tasks and you can use moon ci in PRs.

[airtonix]

What I'm looking for here is that any change in a pr gets regression tested like you mention. But i also want any project that has a :deploy task to be auto deployed to it's preview env.

Getting it to the preview env is a solved thing with cloudflare pages or coolify.

[milesj]

It's just running 2 commands right? moon ci && moon run :deploy?