Turbo Dev - Interactive CLI to run selected services in TurboRepo

[sudhucodes]

Hell Team,

I'm currently working on a small developer tool to improve my workflow while using TurboRepo. I often found it repetitive to manually manage and run multiple services by updating scripts in package.json, so I started building a CLI utility to simplify that process.

The tool allows developers to:

• Select which services to run interactively
• Use predefined presets (e.g., web + api + db)
• Run Turbo commands with filters automatically
• Avoid repeatedly editing package.json scripts

How it works:

• It reads all packages in the monorepo using pnpm turbo ls
• Filters only those packages that have a dev script in their package.json
• Presents an interactive multiselect prompt (via prompts)
• Supports both manual selection and preset-based selection
• Resolves the final selection into a list of packages
• Dynamically builds a command like:
  pnpm turbo run dev --filter=web --filter=api ...
• Executes the command so only the selected services run

I'm planning to open-source this project and was considering the name "turbo-dev". Before publishing, I wanted to check if using this name would be acceptable, or if it might create any confusion with official TurboRepo tools or Vercel branding.

I want to be respectful of your ecosystem and avoid any unintended conflicts or misrepresentation.

I’d really appreciate your guidance on whether this naming is okay, or if you'd recommend choosing something more distinct.

Also, I’m relatively early in my journey (19 and still learning), so this is both a learning project and something I hope others might find useful.

Thanks a lot for your time and for building such great tools.

[anthonyshew]

If you want, you can contribute this directly to Turborepo. If the terminal emulator is a TTY and the user runs turbo run with no arguments, this would be a great experience.

Either I'll write it or you will, whoever has time first. 😄