Using Assets and Roles from dependencies

Anvil Q&A
1

Is it possible to use assets and roles from apps you configure as dependencies?

The reason I ask is that I am trying to use components that I define in one app as a library of components. My problem is that I used roles and assets/css to style the components in the library, but the styling does not carry over to app using this library as a dependency.

2

I’m afraid this isn’t possible at the moment, but it’s on our roadmap.

There’s a workaround for the meantime: Check out each app with Git, copy the /theme directory from one to the other (or those parts of it you want to be inherited) and push upstream.

Something like

git clone <url for app A>
git clone <url for app B>
cp -R app_A/theme/* app_B/theme
cd app_B
git add theme
git commit -m 'Cloned theme from app_A'
git push origin
3

Great, thanks for the info!