Is there any alternative to next-payload for same server access to Local API?

johnrisbylast year

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  plumdufferlast year

  If you scroll down the page on

  https://payloadcms.com/docs/getting-started/installation

  there is a

  local

  property you can pass to init payload without having to pass an express server. If you can provide a path to your

  payload.config.ts

  in your serve command via the enivronment variable

  PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH

  you should be good to go.

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  johnrisbylast year

  Thanks

  @778800940723077130

  , so this is based on "Adding to an existing app"?

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  plumdufferlast year

  Not necessarily. Should be fine either way.

  
  
  

  Here's an example of how I'm doing it inside a Qwik app:

  https://github.com/plumduffer/plumduffer-site/blob/qwik/src/qwik/routes/index.tsx#L8-L16
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  johnrisbylast year

  Sorry, bit confused. Let's say I've got my payload running on a subdomain cms.domain.com. and my main (existing) next.js app running an www.domain.com which already does things - including accessing mongodb btw, which seems to be another gotcha I found when adding payload to an existing app....

  
  
  

  if I add local to cms, it will disable the api routes, which is fine - in fact great from a security point of view - if I can access the local api from my next.js app. it also says "when set to true, express is not required" - but then I wouldn't be able to access the cms?

  
  
  

  but how then do I access the payload via local api in my next.js app? sorry if this is very basic and I'm missing obvious documented info here, but I went down the next-payload route from the start so it's possible i've missed something obvious.

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  plumdufferlast year

  You would be initiating your cms as normal, without the

  local

  property. And then in your next js app, you initiate payload

  again

  with the

  local

  property, letting you interact directly with your database. Of course, you need to do this on your server, whether that's a server component or getStaticProps or getServerSideProps.

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  johnrisbylast year

  got you (I think). just trying it now. thanks, will let you know!

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  plumdufferlast year

  got a repo to share?

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  johnrisbylast year

  no, sorry

  
  
  @778800940723077130

  should I be pointing PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH to the config of my standalone payloadCMS app? I'm doing that in my next.js app env file but I'm getting "Cannot use import statement outside a module"

  
  
  

  oh, think I've done it. I'm running payload in dev mode, but I just built it, and changed the PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH to the dist/payload.config.js instead of the .ts and now I've got a new set of errors but appears to be returning data. investigating!

  
  
  

  yes, working now

  @778800940723077130

  ! the "new set of errors" was just me being dumb and changing a getstaticprops to getserversideprops and leaving revalidate in. it's now returning the post data!

  
  
  

  thanks so much for your help!