Configure output directory (currently fixed to ".svelte-kit")

[ecstrema]

Describe the problem

In monorepos, builds are often centralized into a single top-level build directory.

Is there anything that prevents that change from being innocent and simple?

Describe the proposed solution

In order for svelte-kit to support that, the SVELTE_KIT constant in constants.js should be replaced by a configuration option.

setting the kit.vite.build.outDir options prints an error:

build_server: The value for kit.vite.build.outDir specified in svelte.config.js has been ignored. This option is controlled by SvelteKit.

should the vite option be used, or should there be svelte-kit specific option?

Importance

nice to have

[ecstrema]

I couldn't find any existing bug report/feature request for this, which surprises me. I hope I am not duplicating things here. Feel free to close if there's already a similar issue.

[Rich-Harris]

The directory is used for more than Vite builds, so we can't use vite.build.outDir — Kit needs to control it. Having it be configurable seems reasonable, we would just need to bikeshed a name. buildDir? outDir? tmpDir? something else?

[ecstrema]

The directory is used for more than Vite builds, so we can't use vite.build.outDir — Kit needs to control it.

Can't we use vite.build.outDir for more than vite builds?

[ecstrema]

we would just need to bikeshed a name. buildDir? outDir? tmpDir? something else?

I have a preference for outDir, just because it's clearer than tmpDir, is more than just a buildDir, and is in line with vite.

[flcarre]

Figuring the same issue for adding sveltekit to https://github.com/jhipster, as a monorepo project generator, while we can't change the output dir, we can't merge the sveltekit pr

[DominikPieper]

It would be a great help to create a better Nx integration

[flcarre]

Finaly found a workarround using adapter-static

kit: { adapter: adapter({ pages: 'target/classes/static/', assets: 'target/classes/static/', fallback: 'index.html', }), appDir: '_app',

[Conduitry]

@Rich-Harris You wanted to keep this open until the case of outDir being outside the CWD was sorted out, right?