Javascript overview

Pants's support for Javascript.

Javascript support is beta stage

We are done implementing most functionality for Pants's Javascript support (tracked here). However, there may be use cases that we aren't yet handling.

The Javascript and NodeJS ecosystem has a seemingly endless amount of frameworks and tooling, all orchestrated via package managers.

Pants employs a wrapping approach with a thin caching layer applied on top of current supported package managers: npm, pnpm and yarn.

Features for Javascript:

• Caching the results of your test scripts and build scripts, making the latter available in your Pants workflows as resources and package artifacts.
• A consistent interface for all languages/tools in your repository, such as being able to run pants fmt lint check test package.
• Remote execution and remote caching.
• Advanced project introspection, such as finding all code that transitively depends on a certain package.