Upload latest schema on startup?

[NilsBaumgartner1994]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I would like to always upload the latest schema when i am about to start my remote servers.

Describe the solution you'd like
A small folder where it uses it to automatically push the schema from.

Describe alternatives you've considered
A script which waits for directus to boot up and then to upload the schema.

Additional context
Great work of your project. Realy hope to see it come directly from directus.

[EdouardDem]

Hi @NilsBaumgartner1994
I had few feature requests similar to this one.
I was thinking to add a command wait that would complete once the server is started (relying on the info endpoint of Directus).
This could be used along with other commands, like this:

npx directus-sync wait --interval 5 --timeout 60 && npx directus-sync push

Could this help for your use case ?

[NilsBaumgartner1994]

I thought about a custom api hook which would start during the init server start hook.
And then maybe when completed and uploaded the new schema force the server instance to restart aka. Crash

[NilsBaumgartner1994]

@EdouardDem i created in directus a feature request: directus/directus#24647

But is it possible for directus-sync to somehow be called before directus even starts? Like passing a path to the extension, where to find the latest schema?

[bgenia]

If you're using docker compose you can deploy directus-sync as a separate container and make other services depend on it so they start only when configuration is uploaded.

Here's my setup:

services:
  directus:
    depends_on:
      database:
        condition: service_healthy

    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "wget", "--spider", "-q", "http://directus:8055/server/health"]

  directus-sync:
    environment:
      DIRECTUS_URL: http://directus:8055
      DIRECTUS_ADMIN_EMAIL: ${DIRECTUS_ADMIN_EMAIL}
      DIRECTUS_ADMIN_PASSWORD: ${DIRECTUS_ADMIN_PASSWORD}

    depends_on:
      directus:
        condition: service_healthy

  app:
    depends_on:
      directus-sync:
        condition: service_completed_successfully

directus-sync is just this:

FROM node:23-slim

RUN npm install --global directus-sync

WORKDIR /app

# You can mount a volume instead for development deploys
COPY ./configuration/directus /app/configuration/directus/ 

CMD ["npx", "directus-sync", "push", "--dump-path", "./configuration/directus"]

[NilsBaumgartner1994]

If you're using docker compose you can deploy directus-sync as a separate container and make other services depend on it so they start only when configuration is uploaded.

Here's my setup:

services:
directus:
depends_on:
database:
condition: service_healthy

healthcheck:
  test: ["CMD", "wget", "--spider", "-q", "http://directus:8055/server/health"]

directus-sync:
environment:
DIRECTUS_URL: http://directus:8055
DIRECTUS_ADMIN_EMAIL: ${DIRECTUS_ADMIN_EMAIL}
DIRECTUS_ADMIN_PASSWORD: ${DIRECTUS_ADMIN_PASSWORD}

depends_on:
  directus:
    condition: service_healthy

app:
depends_on:
directus-sync:
condition: service_completed_successfully
directus-sync is just this:

FROM node:23-slim

RUN npm install --global directus-sync

WORKDIR /app

You can mount a volume instead for development deploys

COPY ./configuration/directus /app/configuration/directus/

CMD ["npx", "directus-sync", "push", "--dump-path", "./configuration/directus"]

Yes awesome that’s something that could work.