Monorepo, Build Systems & Task Runners

Turborepo

vercel/turborepo

Popular

Vercel's high-performance task runner for JS/TS monorepos with local and remote caching.

Nx

nrwl/nx

Popular

Monorepo build platform with project graph, affected commands, distributed caching and code generators.

Bazel

bazelbuild/bazel

Popular

Google's hermetic, polyglot build system with remote caching and execution for very large codebases.

GNU Make

gnu.org

Popular

Venerable Makefile-based build automation tool, still the lingua franca for project task shortcuts.

just

casey/just

Handy command runner using a Makefile-like justfile without Make's build-system quirks.

Task

go-task/task

Task runner and simpler Make alternative configured with a YAML Taskfile, shipped as one Go binary.

Lerna

lerna/lerna

Legacy

Original JS monorepo publishing tool, now maintained by Nx; mostly kept for versioning/publishing in older repos.

Rush

microsoft/rushstack

Microsoft's scalable monorepo manager for large JS/TS repos with strict phantom-dependency protection.

moon

moonrepo/moon

Rising

Rust-based build system and monorepo manager for web ecosystems with toolchain pinning and caching.

Vite+

voidzero-dev/vite-plus

New

Unified open-source toolchain from VoidZero bundling Vite, Vitest, Oxlint, Oxfmt and task caching in one CLI.