A powerful toolkit for managing multiple node-modules in a flexibly defined workspace, just the way you like it.

• build and watch (typescript)
• sync and watch (dependency graph)
• bump (versions in dependency graph order)
• publish (to NPM)
• outdated (list all outdated modules)

Install

npm install -g msync

Usage

Create a sync.yaml file to define the modules within your workspace.

modules:
  - ./sample/*/package.json
  - ./sample/libs/*/package.json

watchPattern: /lib/**/*.js # The files that when changed cause a sync to occur.

Run the command line using msync within your workspace folder to list, sync or build the modules:

ls (list)

sync

build (typescript)

outdated

watch

Starts watchers for build and sync in new tabs. Requires a terminal like iTerm2 that can recieve "new tab" instructions.

delete

Deletes common transient folders from across all modules, such as logs (yarn-error.log and npm-debug.log) or yarn.lock files, or node_modules folder etc.

tsconfig

Common transformations across typescript configuration files, eg flipping the noUnusedLocals switch.

audit

Runs an NPM security audit across all modules.

Help

Use the --help (-h) flag to see the options for each command, eg:

msync sync --help

Ignore

You can ignore file paths and module names by declaring an ignore block in the sync.yaml definition:

ignore:
  paths:
    - ./sample/**/ignore-folder
  names:
    - 'module-4'

Other Approaches

Here are some other approaches to the problem that you might prefer:

• NPM link - Our old friend npm link. Good luck with that!

• Lerna: A tool for managing JavaScript projects with multiple packages.

Next Steps

• workspaces