The Apex CLI uses Workers to run the code generation process with minimal privileges. Workers do not support reading imports from deno.json, so packages must use the jsr: scheme in your import specifier. jsr.io translates import specifiers when packages are published; however, the lack of deno.json poses a problem when loading modules outside of jsr.io, either from the filesystem (local development) or remotely from source control (e.g., GitHub/GitLab).

This directory is a central location for versioning imported modules, similar to how deno.json works, but using ES module built-in export capability.