bun-workspaces has been deprecated and is now developed as pacwich, which supports Bun, npm, and pnpm workspaces, with a mostly backwards compatible CLI and API. Users can expect little to no disruption beyond the package name change and config file name changes.
A full migration guide covering all differences between the packages is available at https://pacwich.dev/intro/bun-workspaces-migration
Installation docs are available at https://pacwich.dev/intro/getting-started
You can also instruct an LLM agent to read https://pacwich.dev/intro/bun-workspaces-migration/index.md to assist with migration.
Read the launch blog post about the motivations and development strategy.
bun-workspaces will not receive further releases save for critical security patches, if necessary. This website will stay up at least through 2026. Once decommissioned, documentation will be consolidated to the package README.
Install the package via bun add --dev bun-workspaces to use the TypeScript/JavaScript API.
See the Glossary for more fundamental concepts.
Ensure you have @types/bun installed for accurate types.
Note that you need to run bun install in your project forbun-workspaces to find your project's workspaces, and you likely must run this again after you've updated your workspaces, such as changing a name or adding/removing one. This is because bun.lock lists workspaces and is used as the source of truth.
Required Bun version: ^1.2.0
import { createFileSystemProject } from "bun-workspaces";
// A Project contains the core functionality of bun-workspaces.
// Below defaults to process.cwd() for the project root directory
// Pass { rootDirectory: "path/to/your/project" } to use a different root directory
const project = createFileSystemProject();
// A Workspace that matches the name or alias "my-workspace"
const myWorkspace = project.findWorkspaceByNameOrAlias("my-workspace");
// Array of workspaces whose names match the wildcard pattern
const wildcardWorkspaces = project.findWorkspacesByPattern("my-workspace-*");
// Array of workspaces that have "my-script" in their package.json "scripts"
const workspacesWithScript = project.listWorkspacesWithScript("my-script");
// Run a script in a workspace
const runSingleScript = async () => {
const { output, exit } = project.runWorkspaceScript({
workspaceNameOrAlias: "my-workspace",
script: "my-script",
// Optional. Arguments to add to the command
// Can be a string or an array of strings
// If string, the argv will be parsed POSIX-style
args: ["--my", "--appended", "--args"],
// Optional. Whether to ignore all output from the script.
// This saves memory when you don't need script output.
ignoreOutput: false,
});
// Get a stream of the script subprocess's output
for await (const { chunk, metadata } of output.text()) {
// console.log(chunk); // The output chunk's content (string)
// console.log(metadata.streamName); // The output stream, "stdout" or "stderr"
// console.log(metadata.workspace); // The target Workspace
}
// Get data about the script execution after it exits
const exitResult = await exit;
// exitResult.exitCode // The exit code (number)
// exitResult.signal // The exit signal (string), or null
// exitResult.success // true if exit code was 0
// exitResult.startTimeISO // Start time (string)
// exitResult.endTimeISO // End time (string)
// exitResult.durationMs // Duration in milliseconds (number)
// exitResult.metadata.workspace // The target workspace (Workspace)
};
// Run a script in all workspaces that have it in their package.json "scripts" field
const runManyScripts = async () => {
const { output, summary } = project.runScriptAcrossWorkspaces({
// Optional. This will run in all matching workspaces that have my-script
// Accepts same values as the CLI run-script command's workspace patterns
// When not provided, all workspaces that have the script will be used.
workspacePatterns: ["my-workspace", "my-name-pattern-*"],
// Required. The package.json "scripts" field name to run
script: "my-script",
// Optional. Arguments to add to the command (same as for runWorkspaceScript)
args: ["--my", "--appended", "--args"],
// Optional. Whether to run the scripts in parallel (default: true)
parallel: true,
// Optional. When true, a workspace's script will wait
// until any workspaces it depends on have completed
dependencyOrder: false,
// Optional. When true and dependencyOrder is true,
// continue running scripts even if a dependency fails
ignoreDependencyFailure: false,
// Optional. Whether to ignore all output from the scripts.
// This saves memory when you don't need script output.
ignoreOutput: false,
// Optional, callback when script starts, skips, or exits
onScriptEvent: (event, { workspace, exitResult }) => {
// event: "start", "skip", "exit"
},
});
// Get a stream of script output
for await (const { chunk, metadata } of output.text()) {
// console.log(chunk); // the output chunk's content (string)
// console.log(metadata.streamName); // "stdout" or "stderr"
// console.log(metadata.workspace); // the Workspace that the output came from
}
// Get final summary data and script exit details after all scripts have completed
const summaryResult = await summary;
// summaryResult.totalCount // Total number of scripts
// summaryResult.allSuccess // true if all scripts succeeded
// summaryResult.successCount // Number of scripts that succeeded
// summaryResult.failureCount // Number of scripts that failed
// summaryResult.startTimeISO // Start time (string)
// summaryResult.endTimeISO // End time (string)
// summaryResult.durationMs // Total duration in milliseconds (number)
// The exit details of each workspace script
for (const exitResult of summaryResult.scriptResults) {
// exitResult.exitCode // The exit code (number)
// exitResult.signal // The exit signal (string), or null
// exitResult.success // true if exit code was 0
// exitResult.startTimeISO // Start time (ISO string)
// exitResult.endTimeISO // End time (ISO string)
// exitResult.durationMs // Duration in milliseconds (number)
// exitResult.metadata.workspace // The target workspace (Workspace)
}
};