Does anyone update dependency in template projects?

[artemptushkin]

Tell us more.

Let's say we have a project with files with placeholders, e.g ejs files

build.gradle.ejs

// some gradle stuff
sonarqube {
    properties {
        property("sonar.projectKey", "<%= projectName %>")
    }
}

How can we automate the dependencies updates in them?

Options (they require details, I keep the description short):

• Run the generation before the Renovate
  • cons:
    • we have to move all the renovate changes from the generated files to the .ejs files as they are in the repo
• Run Renovate on client-side, whenever we run the template engine after that we run Renovate
  • cons:
    • small: it's okay in the pipeline if Renovate runs remotely, it's a problem if you generate a project locally - you will run Renovate locally with a different set up than in the pipeline

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• Related EJS discussion

[artemptushkin]

okay, my case was that we have .ejs files and Renovate simply didn't support them if you use classic build.gradle etc. files it works even if they contain placeholders

[viceice]

you can use regex manager to work around