@lerna-lite/init

@lerna-lite/init

(lerna init) - Init command 🛠️

Create/initialize a new Lerna-Lite repo or upgrade an existing repo to the current version of Lerna-Lite CLI

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Installation

npm install @lerna-lite/cli -D -W

# then use it (see usage below)
lerna init

# OR use npx
npx lerna init

Usage

$ lerna init

Create/initialize a new Lerna-Lite repo or upgrade an existing repo to the current version of Lerna-Lite.

Lerna assumes the repo has already been initialized with git init.

When run, this command will:

1. Add lerna as a devDependency in package.json if it doesn't already exist.
2. Creates lerna.json config file to store the version number and also add a packages property (unless you have --use-workspaces)
   • for more info and full details about the lerna.json file, you can read the lerna.json Wiki.

Example output on a new git repo:

$ lerna init
lerna info version v1.3.0
lerna info Updating package.json
lerna info Creating lerna.json
lerna success Initialized Lerna files

lerna.json

{
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "packages": ["packages/*"]
}

Options

--independent

$ lerna init --independent

This flag tells Lerna-Lite to use independent versioning mode.

--exact

$ lerna init --exact

By default, lerna init will use a caret range when adding or updating the local version of lerna, just like npm install --save-dev lerna.

To retain the lerna of "exact" comparison, pass this flag. It will configure lerna.json to enforce exact match for all subsequent executions.

{
  "command": {
    "init": {
      "exact": true
    }
  },
  "version": "0.0.0"
}

--use-workspaces

$ lerna init --use-workspaces

This flag tells Lerna-Lite to add a workspaces property in the project root package.json instead of the default lerna.json file, which is the workspace setup that Yarn/NPM now use

Note: pnpm users should not use this flag, they should simply use the default which is to have packages in lerna.json file (as shown in default usage lerna.json config).

lerna.json

{
  "version": "0.0.0"
}

package.json (project root)

{
  "name": "monorepo",
  "devDependencies": {
    "@lerna-lite/cli": "^1.0.0"
  },
  "workspaces": ["packages/*"]
}