pnpm in monorepo - how to run a command only in a specific package?

Question

Let's say I want to install a package in a specific package in my monorepo, how do I do this from root?

in npm, you can do this with something like this:

npm install react --workspace=a

I searched the docs and I can't find a way to do this in pnpm.

Satterlee

Answer 1

It is called "filtering" in pnpm docs (see it here).

In this case, you would run:

pnpm --filter=a add react

or

pnpm -F=a add react

Twoseater

--filter works, thanks! -F doesn't for some reason though. – Satterlee

It's worth noting that the filter will looking for the "name" in the package's "package.json" file, not the name of the package directory. – Onomastic

Would it work the same way as if I was in the particular package and run the pnpm add react from that folder? – Rew

@Rew yes, it would be the same – Twoseater