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find-workspaces
Advanced tools
find-workspaces 
Find all the workspaces of a monorepo.
It supports:
Installation
# npm
npm i find-workspaces
# yarn
yarn add find-workspaces
# pnpm
pnpm add find-workspaces
Usage
// esm
import { findWorkspaces } from "find-workspaces";
// commonjs
const { findWorkspaces } = require("find-workspaces");
const workspaces = findWorkspaces();
console.log(workspaces);
API
findWorkspaces(dirname, options)
Finds all workspaces.
Returns Workspace[] or null if dirname is not inside a monorepo.
dirname
Type: string | undefined
Default: process.cwd()
The directory to start searching for the monorepo root.
Options
Type: Options
Default: {}
See Options
findWorkspacesRoot(dirname, options)
Finds the monorepo root.
Returns WorkspacesRoot or null if dirname is not inside a monorepo.
dirname
Type: string | undefined
Default: process.cwd()
The directory to start searching for the monorepo root.
Options
Type: Options
Default: {}
See Options
createWorkspacesCache()
Returns a cache which can be provided to findWorkspaces and findWorkspacesRoot.
Options
stopDir
Type: string | undefined
Default: os.homedir()
The directory to stop searching for the monorepo root.
The provided directory will not be included in the search.
cache
Type: Cache | undefined
An optional cache created by createWorkspacesCache.
Workspace
location
Type: string
The location of the workspace as an absolute path.
package
Type: PackageJson
The parsed package.json file of the workspace.
WorkspaceRoot
location
Type: string
The location of the workspace as an absolute path.
globs
Type: string[]
A list of the glob patterns used to define the workspaces.
License
[v0.3.1] - 2024-02-16
- Fixed
typesfield inpackage.json
FAQs
Find all the workspaces of a monorepo.
The npm package find-workspaces receives a total of 109,506 weekly downloads. As such, find-workspaces popularity was classified as popular.
We found that find-workspaces demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 16 Feb 2024
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