Manage dependencies
Learn how to manage dependencies in supastarter.
As the package manager we chose pnpm.
Why pnpm
It is a fast, disk space efficient package manager that uses hard links and symlinks to save one version of a module only ever once on a disk. It also has a great monorepo support.
Install a package
To install a package to the supastarter monorepo you need to decide whether you want to install it to the root of the monorepo or to a specific workspace. Installing it to the root makes it available to all packages, while installing it to a specific workspace makes it available only to that workspace.
To install a package globally, run:
pnpm add -w <package-name>To install a package to a specific workspace, run:
pnpm add --filter <workspace-name> <package-name>Here is a list of the workspaces of supastarter:
- web
- api
- auth
- database
- eslint-config-custom
- tsconfig
- tailwind
- utils
Remove a package
Removing a package is the same as installing but with the remove command.
To remove a package globally, run:
pnpm remove -w <package-name>To remove a package to a specific workspace, run:
pnpm remove --filter <workspace-name> <package-name>Update a package
Updating is a bit easier since there is a nice way to update a package in all workspaces at once:
pnpm update -r <package-name>