BSbsimpson·Nov 3, 2023Submission
Tell HN: GitHub Is Having Problems
github.com/google/wireit is loading on my phone, but not on my laptop. Reproducible by others in other locations.
The status page hasn't caught it yet.
22 points · Open discussiongoogle
wireit
TypeScript2022–2026
google / wireit
wireit
Wireit upgrades your npm/pnpm/yarn scripts to make them smarter and more efficient.
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16Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
6.4KGitHub stars
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What it is
Wireit upgrades your npm/pnpm/yarn scripts to make them smarter and more efficient.
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For those of you working in Node and npm, npm has pretty good built-in support for monorepos now with the workspaces feature. The big missing thing is incremental builds, which…
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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4 sourcesWireit: Upgrade your NPM scripts to make them smarter and more efficient
3 points · Open discussionnpm workspaces plus Wireit works far better than Lerna, in my experience.
https://github.com/google/wireit
Wireit's ability to specify actual script dependencies, do caching (and on Github actions), and its long-running service script support make it much more useful and comprehensive than Lerna.
I agree that this should be built into npm. There's an RRFC for it here: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/issues/706
In Yarn 4.0I must admit I'm a bigger fan of the wireit[0] approach, the only pause I have is its a Google project, my temptation is to fork it. The code isn't terribly complex
My biggest complaint with NX is: lack of a sane API for plugins, and it has more overhead than I'd care for. For the amount of complexity that NX has, I'd rather use Rush[1] which gives you everything NX does. My only complaint with Rush is that its development is really slow going, they really need to focus up on Rush plugins (they're good, but still experimental, and I'd love to see them clean up how `autoinstalls` work to be more intutive)
I'm on the fence about turbo from Vercel
[0]: https://github.com/google/wireit
[1]: https://rushjs.io/
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