Filtering

Filtering allows you to restrict commands to specific subsets of packages.

pnpm supports a rich selector syntax for picking packages by name or by relation.

Selectors may be specified via the --filter (or -F) flag:

pnpm --filter <package_selector> <command>

Matching

--filter <package_name>

To select an exact package, just specify its name (@scope/pkg) or use a pattern to select a set of packages (@scope/*).

Examples:

pnpm --filter "@babel/core" test
pnpm --filter "@babel/*" test
pnpm --filter "*core" test

Specifying the scope of the package is optional, so --filter=core will pick @babel/core if core is not found. However, if the workspace has multiple packages with the same name (for instance, @babel/core and @types/core), then filtering without scope will pick nothing.

--filter <package_name>...

To select a package and its dependencies (direct and non-direct), suffix the package name with an ellipsis: <package_name>.... For instance, the next command will run tests of foo and all of its dependencies:

pnpm --filter foo... test

You may use a pattern to select a set of root packages:

pnpm --filter "@babel/preset-*..." test

--filter <package_name>^...

To ONLY select the dependencies of a package (both direct and non-direct), suffix the name with the aforementioned ellipsis preceded by a chevron. For instance, the next command will run tests for all of foo's dependencies:

pnpm --filter "foo^..." test

--filter ...<package_name>

To select a package and its dependent packages (direct and non-direct), prefix the package name with an ellipsis: ...<package_name>. For instance, this will run the tests of foo and all packages dependent on it:

pnpm --filter ...foo test

--filter "...^<package_name>"

To ONLY select a package's dependents (both direct and non-direct), prefix the package name with an ellipsis followed by a chevron. For instance, this will run tests for all packages dependent on foo:

pnpm --filter "...^foo" test

--filter ./<glob>, --filter {<glob>}

A glob pattern relative to the current working directory matching projects.

pnpm --filter "./packages/**" <cmd>

Includes all projects that are under the specified directory.

It may be used with the ellipsis and chevron operators to select dependents/dependencies as well:

pnpm --filter ...{<directory>} <cmd>
pnpm --filter {<directory>}... <cmd>
pnpm --filter ...{<directory>}... <cmd>

It may also be combined with [<since>]. For instance, to select all changed projects inside a directory:

pnpm --filter "{packages/**}[origin/master]" <cmd>
pnpm --filter "...{packages/**}[origin/master]" <cmd>
pnpm --filter "{packages/**}[origin/master]..." <cmd>
pnpm --filter "...{packages/**}[origin/master]..." <cmd>

Or you may select all packages from a directory with names matching the given pattern:

pnpm --filter "@babel/*{components/**}" <cmd>
pnpm --filter "@babel/*{components/**}[origin/master]" <cmd>
pnpm --filter "...@babel/*{components/**}[origin/master]" <cmd>

--filter "[<since>]"

Selects all the packages changed since the specified commit/branch. May be suffixed or prefixed with ... to include dependencies/dependents.

For example, the next command will run tests in all changed packages since master and on any dependent packages:

pnpm --filter "...[origin/master]" test

--fail-if-no-match

Use this flag if you want the CLI to fail if no packages have matched the filters.

Excluding

Any of the filter selectors may work as exclusion operators when they have a leading "!". In zsh (and possibly other shells), "!" should be escaped: \!.

For instance, this will run a command in all projects except for foo:

pnpm --filter=!foo <cmd>

And this will run a command in all projects that are not under the lib directory:

pnpm --filter=!./lib <cmd>

Multiplicity

When packages are filtered, every package is taken that matches at least one of the selectors. You can use as many filters as you want:

pnpm --filter ...foo --filter bar --filter baz... test

--filter-prod <filtering_pattern>

Acts the same a --filter but omits devDependencies when selecting dependency projects from the workspace.

--test-pattern <glob>

test-pattern allows detecting whether the modified files are related to tests. If they are, the dependent packages of such modified packages are not included.

This option is useful with the "changed since" filter. For instance, the next command will run tests in all changed packages, and if the changes are in the source code of the package, tests will run in the dependent packages as well:

pnpm --filter="...[origin/master]" --test-pattern="test/*" test

--changed-files-ignore-pattern <glob>

Allows to ignore changed files by glob patterns when filtering for changed projects since the specified commit/branch.

Usage example:

pnpm --filter="...[origin/master]" --changed-files-ignore-pattern="**/README.md" run build