Serverless Stack

Is there a way to specify looking in a different folder instead of `lib` with sst.json

Not yet but a couple of folks have requested it so far <https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack/discussions/180>

<@U01J5Q8HV5Z> I’m happy to take this one on.

<@U0269BPK6JF> Thank you! Let me pull <@U01JVDKASAC> in here. He might have something for you :wink:

Should we let ppl specify the path in `sst.json`?
```{
  "name": "playground",
  "stage": "dev",
  "region": "us-east-1",
  "path_to_stack_definition": "lib"
}```
If so, what should we we call this field?

Just talked to Jay, let’s name the field `main"`, and it points to the `index.js` file. So `sst.json` would look like this:
```{
  "name": "playground",
  "stage": "dev",
  "region": "us-east-1",
  "main": "infra/index.js"
}```

<@U0269BPK6JF> I opened an issue here if you want to take a crack at it <https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack/issues/553>

I started working on this and I can see that the `lib/` is being created in the `.build` when running the tests. I am struggling to find where this is being done, anyone free to help? <@U01JVDKASAC> <@U01J5Q8HV5Z>

I think it’s here <https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack/blob/master/packages/cli/scripts/util/cdkHelpers.js#L18>

That is the file where we first read from the `lib` dir. Is that what you were looking for <@U0269BPK6JF>?

Not really <@U01J5Q8HV5Z>, it seems to me you are currently building the `lib/` and having the result of that moved to `.build/`  I'm not sure where that is happening I made the change to look for the `main` inside `sst.json`, the issue I'm having now is the fact that my `infra/index.js` is using `ES6` imports and they can't be resolved in that context. Meaning I am missing some build step.

Right yeah, so we transpile the `lib/index.js` here <https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack/blob/master/packages/cli/scripts/util/cdkHelpers.js#L252>. And the path itself is coming from <https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack/blob/master/packages/cli/scripts/util/paths.js#L22>. Take a look and let me know if that helps.

<@U01J5Q8HV5Z> Thanks, I will add the feature before end of day.

<@U01J5Q8HV5Z> <@U01JVDKASAC> The PR is out, but it failed the label check. Should we not add that to the contribution guide? About how to create a PR into the project?

Awesome! Thanks <@U0269BPK6JF>! I will take a look at the PR today or tmr.

Good point on the contribution guide. I created an issue to update the contribution guide, and assigned it to <@U01J5Q8HV5Z> - <https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack/projects/1#card-65230812>

<@U01MV4U2EV9> this is now possible in v0.35.0 by specifying the path to the app file in `sst.json`:
```{
  "name": "my-sst-app",
  "stage": "dev",
  "region": "us-east-1",
  "main": "infra/index.js"
}```