mono-repos

Highly opinionated set of utilities to orchestrate and administrate mono repositories.

The mono-repos project assumes the following:

• Packages live in the packages folder in the root of the repository.
• Each package has their own individual version number.
• A publish should be easy trackable in Github, using tags.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • mono.root
  • mono.git
  • mono#repo
  • mono#resolve
  • mono#verify
  • mono#each
  • mono#packages
  • mono#publish
  • mono#install
  • mono#link
• Repo
  • publish
  • install
  • test
  • link
• CLI
• License

Installation

This library should be installed as devDependency in the root of your mono repository.

npm install --save-dev mono-repos

But as it ships with a CLI tool it can also be installed globally.

npm install --global mono-repos

Usage

const Mono = require('mono-repos');

The mono constructor accepts 2 arguments:

• root This is the absolute path to the root of the mono repository.
• options Default configuration for the projects.

const mono = new Mono(process.cwd(), { /* options here */ });

In addition to the optionsargument that you can pass into the Mono constructor we also support reading of global config files/values:

• package.json#mono Add a new mono object to your package.json where you specify the config values.
• .monorc Creating a dedicated .monorc file in JSON format, and specify the configuration values there. If a .monorc file is found, we will ignore the values that are specified in package.json#mono.

The mono instance has the following methods and properties available:

• mono.root
• mono.git
• mono#repo
• mono#resolve
• mono#verify
• mono#each
• mono#packages
• mono#publish
• mono#install
• mono#link
• mono#test

mono.root

This is the absolute path to where the mono repository is located

console.log(mono.root);

mono.git

A pre-configured git-shizzle cli wrapper for interacting with the git repository.

console.log(mono.git.changes()) // lists all unstaged changes

mono#repo

Returns a new Repo instance for a given package name. The name should be a name of a folder which is in the /packages folder.

const repo = mono.repo('package-name');

See Repo for the available methods on the repo instance.

mono#resolve

Helper function to resolve the path package. It basically joins the name given name with mono.root and the known packages folder.

const loc = mono.resolve('package-name');
console.log(loc); // /current/working-directory/packages/package-name

mono#verify

Verifies that the repo is in a good state to publish. Returns a boolean as success indication.

mono.verify();

mono#each

Iterates over all packages in the /packages folder. It accepts a function or a string as first argument. When it's a function, it assumes it's an iterator function. This function will receive a Repo instance as first argument.

When a string is supplied it will assume it's a method name that needs be called on the Repo instance. Any other argument supplied to the mono#each method will then be used as argument for the method.

mono.each('publish'); // iterates over all packages, calls repo#publish on all.
 
//
// Same as above, but then passes the object in to the repo#publish method
//
mono.each('publish', { release: 'major' });
 
//
// Which are all short hands for writing:
//
mono.each(function each(repo) {
  return repo.publish();
});

It's worth noting that the mono#each method will stop iterating over the packages when you return a false in the callback. This is useful for cases when you do not want to continue publishing when an error occurs etc.

mono#packages

Returns an array with the names of the npm packages that are hosted in the /packages folder.

mono.packages(); // ["package-name", "another", ..]

mono#install

Install the dependencies of all the package.

mono.install()

This is a shorthand method for;

mono.each('install');

mono#publish

Publishes all the packages.

mono.publish({
  release: 'major',
  message: 'optional commit message, see Repo#publish for more information'
})

This is a shorthand method for:

mono.each('publish');

mono#link

Setups the symlinks of in the node_module folders of all packages.

mono.link();

This is a shorthand method for:

mono.each('link');

mono#test

Run all the tests.

mono.test();

This is a shorthand method for:

mono.each('test');

Repo

The Repo class represents a single package from the packages folder. The package has the following methods and properties are available:

• repo.name
• repo.root
• repo.npm
• repo#configure
• repo#read
• repo#publish
• repo#install
• repo#test
• repo#link

repo#name

The name of the package. This corresponds with the folder name in /packages

const repo = mono.repo('package-name');
 
console.log(repo.name); // package-name

repo#root

The absolute path to the package folder

const repo = mono.repo('package-name');
 
console.log(repo.root); // /root/folder/packages/package-name

repo#npm

Pre-configured npm-shizzle cli wrapper that only operates in the package folder.

const repo = mono.repo('package-name');
 
repo.npm.install('--save', 'diagnostics');

The snippet above will save a new dependency in the package.json of the file.

repo#configure

Merges the provided options with the options that were originally provided to the mono instance. This allows you to supply defaults options to the mono instance. This method used by all repo methods that accept options.

const mono = new Mono(process.cwd(), {
  foo: 'bar',
  bar: 'baz'
});
 
const repo = mono.repo('hello world');
 
const options = repo.configure({ bar: 'hi', release: 'major' });
 
// options is now: { foo: 'bar', bar: 'hi', release: 'major' }

repo#read

Read out the package.json of the package.

const repo = mono.repo('package-name');
 
const data = repo.read();
console.log(data.version, data.dependencies);

repo#publish

Publish a new version of the package. The process will start the following operations in the package:

• Bump the version number of the package.json file.
• Create a new [dist] ${name}@${version} commit.
• Create a new git tag ${name}@${version}.
• Push tags, and commit to the current branch.
• Run npm publish to publish the version to npm.

const repo = mono.repo('name of project');
 
repo.publish({ release: 'patch' });

The method accepts an optional object with the following keys:

• release Type of version bump we want to do, can either be patch, minor or major.
• version Instead of an automated version bump, bump the project to the specified version number.
• message Additional commit message.

If no options are provided, it will use the options object that was originally provided to the mono instance.

repo#install

Install all the dependencies of the given project.

const repo = mono.repo('name of project');
 
repo.install();

repo#test

Run the test of a given project.

const repo = mono.repo('name of project');
 
repo.test();

repo#link

Symlink all projects from the packages folder if we have a dependency or devDependency on them.

const repo = mono.repo('name of project');
 
repo.link();

CLI

The project comes with a build-in CLI called mono. This provides some basic repo management utilities such as (mass and targeted) publish, test, link and installation.

When supplying mono without arguments you will be presented with the help menu:

mono:help:
mono:help: mono(-repos): Mono repo management made easy
mono:help:
mono:help: usage: mono [flags]
mono:help:
mono:help: --publish [name]           Publish all packages, when a name is given only release
mono:help:                            that given package instead of all packages.
mono:help:      --release [type]      Type of release, either `patch`, `minor` or `major`.
mono:help:      --version [semver]    Instead of an automated bump, release the specified version.
mono:help:      --message="message"   Optional message for the publish.
mono:help: --test [name]              Run the test suite, all, or for the given name.
mono:help: --link [name]              npm link packages, all, or for the given name.
mono:help: --install [name]           npm install dependencies, all, or for the given name.
mono:help:
mono:help: examples:
mono:help:
mono:help:   mono --publish foo --release patch
mono:help:   mono --install && mono --link
mono:help:

License

The project is released under the MIT license