When running commands on a workspace, it is possible to limit them to a subset of packages.
pnpm supports package selectors that can be used together with its recursive commands:
pnpm recursive <cmd> [arg..] -- [selector...]
# or
pnpm recursive <cmd> [arg..] --filter <selector-1> --filter <selector-2>...When packages in the workspace are filtered, every package is taken that matches at least one of the selectors.
Selectors that start with ./ are selectors by filesystem path. Selectors by path don't support globs.
Select all packages in the packages folder:
pnpm recursive install -- ./packagesSelectors that don't start with ./ are selectors by package name.
To select an exact package, just specify its name. For insance,
the following command will be applied on foo, bar and @pnpm/config:
pnpm recursive install -- foo bar @pnpm/config
To select a package and its dependencies (direct and non-direct), suffix the package name with 3 dots: <pkg name>....
For instance, the next command will run installation in all dependencies of foo and in foo:
pnpm recursive install -- foo...
To select a package and its dependent packages (direct and non-direct), prefix the package name with 3 dots: ...<pkg name>.
For instance, the next command will run installation in all dependents of foo and in foo:
pnpm recursive install -- ...foo
To select all packages that are between two packages in the dependency graph, the two package names
should be concatenated with ..: <pkg1>..<pkg2>.
The following command is performed on all transitive deps of foo and bar (including foo and bar):
pnpm recursive install -- foo..bar
Selecting all dependents and dependencies: <cmd> -- ...<pkg>...
Selecting dependencies of pkg2 and transitive dependencies between pkg1 ang pkg2: <cmd> -- pkg1..pkg2...