n8n/packages/modules/README.md

Modules

Feature modules carved out of packages/frontend/editor-ui. Each one is a workspace package at <name>/frontend: source-only (main: "src/index.ts", no dist), consumed by the editor-ui shell through Vite aliases.

<name>/backend is a reserved path rather than a workspace package — the backend runtime discovers modules under packages/cli/src/modules/<name>. The extra nesting level is what lets both halves of a module sit together later.

The directory is empty until the first module lands, and tracked in the meantime because turbo rejects a --filter whose directory does not exist. The root test:ci:* scripts and the two backend jobs in .github/workflows/test-unit-reusable.yml all name packages/modules/**.