Rapinsel-Spleen - In the beginning (Part 1)

Updated: at 11:14 PM

Setup PNPM Workspace

Although I wrote a post on how to setup a workspace using Bun this time I’m starting with a PNPM Workspace. It’s almost the same, I just felt like using PNPM so the steps are pretty easy:

mkdir rapinsel && cd rapinsel

pnpm init

This will create a package.json. My stripped-down version looks like this:

{
  "name": "rapinsel",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "license": "MIT"
}

Now it’s time to create a pnpm workspace by creating a pnpm-workspace.yaml file and define the directories we need for our project. You are pretty much free to use any layout you want but I’ve seen many people using a packages directory like this:

packages:
  - "packages/*"

Inside this packages directory we will create our two projects.

mkdir backend frontend

In the next chapter we will start on the backend in Rust: see you there my friend.