feat: improve monorepo dev experience

examples/minimal-plugin/src/app.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
  */
 import {HttpClient} from '@openstapps/api';
 import {PluginClient} from '@openstapps/api-plugin';
-import {Converter} from '@openstapps/core-tools';
 import {Logger} from '@openstapps/logger';
 import {Command, Option} from 'commander';
 import {readFileSync} from 'fs';
@@ -52,18 +51,11 @@ const pluginClient = new PluginClient(new HttpClient(), options.backendUrl);
 
 // create an instance of your plugin
 const plugin = new MinimalPlugin(
-  // tslint:disable-next-line:no-magic-numbers
   Number.parseInt(options.port, 10),
   options.pluginName,
   options.url,
   `/${options.routeName}`,
   options.backendUrl,
-  new Converter(path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'src', 'plugin', 'protocol')), // an instance of the converter. Required
-  // because your requests and response schemas are defined in the plugin. The path should lead to your request and
-  // response interfaces
-  'SCMinimalRequest', // TODO: adjust name of the request interface
-  'SCMinimalResponse', // TODO: adjust name of the response interface
-  JSON.parse(readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'package.json')).toString()).version, // get the version of the plugin from the package.json
 );
 
 pluginClient

examples/minimal-plugin/src/plugin/minimal-plugin.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
  */
 import {Plugin} from '@openstapps/api-plugin';
 import * as express from 'express';
+import schema from '../../lib/schema.json';
 import {SCMinimalRequest} from './protocol/request.js';
 import {SCMinimalResponse} from './protocol/response.js';
 
@@ -24,6 +25,10 @@ import {SCMinimalResponse} from './protocol/response.js';
  * TODO: rename the class
  */
 export class MinimalPlugin extends Plugin {
+  requestSchema = schema.SCMinimalRequest;
+
+  responseSchema = schema.SCMinimalResponse;
+
   /**
    * Calculates the sum of a list of numbers
    *

examples/minimal-plugin/src/plugin/protocol/request.ts

@@ -27,3 +27,5 @@ export interface SCMinimalRequest {
    */
   numbers: number[];
 }
+
+export {default as requestSchema} from 'schema:#SCMinimalRequest';

examples/minimal-plugin/src/plugin/protocol/response.ts

@@ -27,3 +27,5 @@ export interface SCMinimalResponse {
    */
   sum: number;
 }
+
+export {default as requestSchema} from 'schema:#SCMinimalResponse';

examples/minimal-plugin/src/plugin/protocol/tsconfig.json

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "extends": "@openstapps/tsconfig"
-}