lerna

A fast, modern build system for publishing multiple JavaScript and TypeScript packages from one repository, now under Nx stewardship.

Lerna is a fast, modern build system for managing and publishing multiple JavaScript and TypeScript packages from the same repository. That makes it a tool for monorepo workflows, where coordination between packages is the whole problem. Publishing multiple packages from one repo is exactly the workflow Lerna was built for. Monorepo tooling is a crowded space, so the README leans on the speed and publishing angle. The two package types, JavaScript and TypeScript, are named explicitly in the project description. TypeScript is the primary language, the license is MIT, and the homepage is lerna.js.org.

An important note at the top of the README says the project changed stewardship to Nx, linking to a blog post about Lerna 5.1 with a new website, guides, an example repository, and distributed caching support. The blog post announcement is linked rather than summarized, which keeps the README short. The core team is listed by name: Victor Savkin, James Henry, Benjamin Cabanes, and Juri Strumpflohner, each with a GitHub handle.

Important contributors are acknowledged by name, including Jeff Cross, Daniel Stockman, Austin Fahsl, Jamie Kyle, and Henry Zhu, among others. The project is presented as community developed open source, and the stewardship note explains where the project sits now. The list of names reads like a handoff note, which fits the change announced above.

The README is mostly housekeeping: a stewardship notice, a changelog pointer, and a list of names. The Nx stewardship note and the Lerna 5.1 announcement carry the actual news.

• Source 1 · Project repository
• Source 2 · README