learning lerna - combing individual packages into a library and keeping them separate

[rramsey]

Hi,

Just started learning lerna and I think this may be something that I can do with --scope, but I'm not sure. Not even sure of the exact terms to use to search the docs. That's where I'm at learning lerna.

Let's say I have the following setup:
packages/my-comp-a [ version 1.2.1 ]
packages/my-comp-b [ version 1.3.2 ]
packages/my-comp-c [ version 1.0.7 ]

where each of the my-comp-* components has its own git repo and .gitlab-ci.yml file so that whenever I push to the main branch the yml file runs and publishes my component as an npm package in gitlab. This works fine for each individual component. Hooray lerna!

But now I also want to be able to build all of those individual components into a single dist folder and package that up as a separate my-comp-library package with its own version number, say 1.4.0 given the version numbers above. This way consumers of my components could either do npm install my-comp-a if they wanted just component A at version 1.2.1 -or- npm install my-comp-library which would give them all three components at version 1.4.0. Eventually there will be much more than 3 components, so having a library or individuals make sense to us.

Would the way to do that be to add a packages/my-comp-library with its own package.json and then make my-comp-a, b, and c dependencies of the my-comp-library? Is there a better way? I wasn't even sure what to search for, but it sounds like it is possible.

Thanks for any help!