ARACNE

Monorepo manager

Origin

I created this library because I was too lazy to learn lerna or to find an alternative to it and my ideas were clear enough about what I was looking for to give me the courage to reinvent the wheel.

Name origin

"Aracne" is the name of a greek mitological character, very able to weave.

Usage

After the installation you can run the available commands, shown below, simply running:

aracne <command>

or

npx aracne <command>

Commands

import

It allows you to import external packages (not remotely).
Special thanks to lerna, from which it was taken the code for the file path rebase in commits.

changed

It allows you to receive a list of packages that need a version increase.

build

It allows you to build packages and link their internal dependencies.
You can let Aracne know how to build your packages configuring the "build" property.

Packages building can't be split from the internal dependencies linking, because the internal dependencies installation addresses the packed package and not the source folder, avoiding symlinks

version

It allows you to increment the packages version that need it.
This command also runs build and automatically commits the edits. This behavior can be suppressed add the --increase-only option.

restore

It allows you to replace the local installation of internal dependencies with their current version in "package.json" files.
This allows you to prepare the package for publishing in the registry.

publish

It allows you to publish the packages in the registry.
This command also runs version, restore and, after the publishing in the registry, build.

Configuration

You can configure aracne creating a file named "aracne.json" in your project root folder having a valid JSON content.

Following the configurable properties.

"build"

This defines the command that will be run to build the packages.
It can be null, a string, an array of string or an object having as keys the name of the package or "*", to select them all, and as value null, to skip the build, or a string or an array of string, defining the command to run.

"lang"

"manager"

"packages"

"publish"

"source"

This defines what file implies the need of package version increase after the their editing.
It can be a string, an array of string or an object having as keys the name of the package or "*", to select them all, and as value a string or an array of string.

The values follow the extended glob pattern.