How do you export Server Actions from a ts file?

[silver heart]

How do you export server actions from an external library?

This is my file structure:

lib/
     src/
               server-actions.ts
               index.ts
               custom-provider.tsx
playground
        (contains nextjs app)

How do i import the server-actions from lib to my nextjs playground ? It seems like normal import/export doesn't work for 'use server'.

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[quiet flax]

wdym?

[silver heart]

It seems like you can't import it from a external library

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/1e3p3nq/server_action_in_external_library_gives_not_a/

[quiet flax]

hmm, you could export the server code of that server action, and wrap it in a actions.ts file not helpful

[silver heart]

wdym?

also this https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/1ds5h4h/can_i_use_a_server_action_from_an_imported_package/

[quiet flax]

i'm just saying export the server code, like the main actions performed by that library (without nextjs specific stuff)

and re-export the rest in a actions.ts file in your nextjs app

[silver heart]

And how do you make sure that the functions are not accidentally used on the client side by the users?

[open idol]

Server actions are meant to be used on the client, what do you mean?

[frail wing]

Not quite...

They expose an endpoint. The code is run on the server

[open idol]

No I didn’t mean that, I said they’re meant to be used on the client not that they run on the client

[frail wing]

Ah my bad, I thought OP is concerned about server actions being leaked to the client

Which is true for exported functions

[jovial geyser]

you can mark classes as private/protected in typescript.
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/classes.html#private

[frail wing]

What do classes have to do with server functions?

[silver heart]

I am building an external library that have server actions

It seems like i can't use 'use server' directly in the files and bundle them. tsup doesn't allow this i think.

the next option would be to just export them as normal functions

but library users can use the functions in client components directly