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Pacwich – lightweight new monorepo tooling on top of Bun, NPM, or pnpm

Pacwich – lightweight new monorepo tooling on top of Bun, NPM, or pnpm

by smorsic·Jun 16, 2026·1 point·0 comments

AI Analysis

MidShip It

Another monorepo orchestrator when Turborepo and Nx already dominate.

Strengths
  • Decouples tooling from specific package manager choice
  • TypeScript API enables programmatic workflow control
  • Debuggable affected graph shows which workspaces changed
Weaknesses
  • Monorepo tooling space is saturated with established players
  • AI integrations feel tacked on rather than core value
Target Audience

Developers managing monorepos with multiple workspaces

Similar To

Turborepo · Nx · Lerna

Post Description

I developed a package simply called bun-workspaces that worked on top of Bun workspaces directly with zero required config, using plain package.json scripts for orchestration.

I have re-developed this package into pacwich, which supports Bun, npm, or pnpm. I decided it would be a better direction for it to be decoupled from a particular package manager, so it needed a new name (but I wanted to keep my logo).

I write about the development strategy and my engineering philosophy (including disclosing the manner in which AI assists and my approach to not vibing this) in the Security page and the launch blog post about the pivot, which I linked on the home page in the note about the bun-workspaces migration.

More is to come, including a way to compose scripts into more complex workflows rather than running one named script in parallel/series.

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