Question: Flutter key commands don't work

[isacjunior]

When I execute a flutter package with flutter run, the command inserted in the terminal doesn't work. The classic example for this is to use Hot reload inserting r. Exist some workaround?

start:
  run: melos exec -c 1 --scope="app" -- "flutter run"

[rrousselGit]

This is not supported at the moment, but can be added

One question though: Would you mind if the command is instead:

start:
  run: cd packages/app && flutter run

?

Because melos exec is potentially executed across multiple packages. So it's a bit unclear how user inputs would work.

[Salakar]

When I looked at implementing this a while back I was only going to support it in singular form e.g. it'd only be enabled if either of the following is true:

1. if --concurrency is equal to 1 on exec
2. if workspace packages length is equal to 1 (e.g. a single package has been filtered)

So in the case of the example above, -c 1 is set therefore it'd work here

[rrousselGit]

I'm not really a fan of such dual behavior. I could see it being misleading, where users would get confused why inputs work in some cases but not others

[rrousselGit]

Especially the "if workspace packages length equals 1"

That could silently fail if a project started with one package but packages were added later.

[ilyosbekkk]

any updates in this feature request?

[blaugold]

@ilyosbekkk Nothing new yet on this issue.

[opanitch]

we also have use for this. my project uses a more complex flutter run that has different flavors for our different environments and we wanted to make it easier for our developers to run any of these.