microsoft/rushstack

Features

• Incremental Build Engines - Analyzes dependency graphs to execute build tasks in the correct order and recompiles only affected projects.
• Monorepo Dependency Managers - Coordinates dependencies and build processes across multiple projects within a shared TypeScript monorepo workspace.
• Code Quality Linting - Provides standardized linting profiles optimized for large-scale development teams and specific application types.
• Build Cache Hashing - Uses content-hashing to skip unchanged projects and only rebuild components affected by source modifications.
• Build Artifact Caching - Stores and retrieves compiled outputs from remote storage like S3 or Azure to accelerate build times.
• Build Caches - Maintains build cache consistency by populating or restoring project caches without executing full build tasks.
• HTTP Integrations - Shares compiled assets across developers and environments by storing and retrieving build objects over HTTP.
• Build Toolchains - Provides an integrated toolchain for orchestrating the build process across multiple TypeScript packages in a monorepo.
• TypeScript and Pre-processor Pipelines - Automates the transpilation, bundling, and minification of TypeScript assets into distributable web packages.
• Build Orchestrators - Orchestrates the build process by analyzing dependency graphs to execute tasks in the correct order and in parallel.
• Schema Validators - Validates final merged configuration objects against formal schemas to ensure data integrity and correct settings.
• Configuration Rigging - Uses stereotypical project templates to delegate settings to shared packages and minimize configuration duplication.
• Incremental Build Engines - Implements an incremental build engine that executes only the projects affected by source changes.
• Inherited JSON Configurations - Loads and merges JSON files with support for inheritance and relative path resolution.
• Local Project Symlinking - Symlinks projects within a repository so changes are immediately visible to downstream dependencies.
• Package Configuration Tools - Provides utilities for standardizing project settings and build workflows across a monorepo using shared configuration packages.
• Package Publishing Pipelines - Automates the process of detecting changed packages, incrementing versions, and publishing them to registries in bulk.
• Build Standards - Applies standardized build configurations across projects to ensure consistent behavior across the monorepo.
• Remote Build Caches - Stores and retrieves compiled build outputs from remote cloud providers like S3 and Azure to accelerate build times.
• Symlink-Based Dependency Management - Manages workspace dependencies via symbolic links for immediate visibility of local changes.
• Configuration Merging Strategies - Implements logic for combining multiple layers of configuration settings using specific override, append, or replace rules.
• Workspace Dependency Resolution - Installs dependencies into a shared folder and manages internal package resolution using symlinks.
• Build Caches - Integrates with Azure Storage to cache build artifacts and reduce compilation time across environments.
• S3 Integrations - Accelerates compilation by storing and retrieving build outputs from Amazon S3.
• TypeScript Compilation Utilities - Provides integrated TypeScript compilation to transform source files into JavaScript within the build workflow.
• Configuration File Loading - Implements mechanisms for scanning and parsing structured configuration files to provide consistent settings for build tools.
• API Signature Tracking - Generates type definition rollups and tracks changes to API signatures to prevent accidental breaking changes.
• Dependency Graph Managers - Tracks task relationships and optimizes execution order for complex monorepo build graphs.
• Configuration Path Resolution - Converts string properties into absolute filesystem paths relative to the project root for consistent tool configuration.
• Execution Graphs - Executes interdependent build tasks using directed acyclic graphs to ensure correct order and incrementalism.
• Directed Acyclic Graph Pipelines - Orchestrates interdependent build tasks using directed acyclic graphs to ensure correct processing order.
• Plugin-Based Extensibility - Integrates custom preprocessors and loaders through a hook-based plugin architecture for extending tool capabilities.
• Configuration Rigs - Defines stereotypical project types through shared rigs to minimize configuration duplication.
• Module Structural Validation - Ensures modules maintain a flat structure and lack circular dependencies to preserve architectural integrity.
• Static Analysis - Executes static analysis and linting tools across the project to identify and fix code quality issues.
• Build Automation Pipelines - Orchestrates transpilation, linting, testing, and bundling into a single automated pipeline to produce deployable code.
• Compilation Performance Optimization - Utilizes filesystem caching and incremental compilation to optimize TypeScript build performance.
• API Reference Generators - Converts structured metadata into Markdown or DocFX format for searchable online API reference manuals.
• TypeScript Type Generators - Generates TypeScript declaration files from JSON schemas to provide type safety for assets and configurations.
• API Documentation Generators - Transforms TSDoc comments into a published documentation website for easy consumption of APIs.
• Incremental Cache Packaging - Compresses and extracts build entries while skipping unchanged files to preserve filesystem state.
• Build System Configurations - Applies standardized build configurations for projects using a specific system to ensure consistent execution.
• Module Bundlers - Integrates the build system with module bundlers to combine source files and assets into optimized production bundles.
• Web Build Configurations - Provides standardized build profiles for web applications to manage bundling and distribution.
• Asset Bundling - Combines JavaScript and TypeScript files into optimized distributable assets using module bundlers.
• CLI Frameworks - Provides a structured framework for building command-line applications with type-safe parameter handling and syntax validation.
• Dependency Caches - Caches package manager metadata to accelerate module location during the build process.
• Dependency Auditing - Identifies outdated dependencies and security vulnerabilities to facilitate version upgrades.
• Dependency Version Conflict Analysis - Traces dependencies in a lockfile to identify why multiple versions of a package exist.
• Duplicate Package Elimination - Identifies multiple installations of the same package version to remove redundancy.
• Import Standard Validation - Validates that import paths are normalized and remain within designated package boundaries.
• TypeScript Declaration Consolidation - Merges multiple declaration files into a single trimmed file based on specific release targets.
• Exported Identifier Visibility - Validates export consistency and identifier visibility to ensure public functions include all required dependencies.
• Release Changelog Generators - Aggregates pull request data to automatically generate formatted changelogs for new releases.
• Automated Release Workflows - Detects changed packages and automates version increments, changelog generation, and bulk publishing.
• Repository Manifest Parsing - Extracts and interprets metadata from package manifest files to manage workspace dependencies.
• Software Dependency Catalogs - Generates an inventory of bundled third-party packages from lockfiles and manifests for security and legal analysis.
• Version Mappings - Tracks published package versions by generating a mapping of all packages to their current release numbers.
• Event Loop Offloading Pools - Executes asynchronous tasks across background threads to prevent blocking the main event loop.
• Module Import Tracing - Maps the sequence of calls for imported files to identify why specific modules are loaded.
• Legacy Member Restrictions - Prevents the use of members prefixed with underscores to discourage reliance on legacy APIs.
• TSDoc Standard Validation - Checks documentation comments against the TSDoc standard to ensure compatibility with extraction tools.
• TypeScript Transpilers - Utilizes fast, isolated transpilers to convert TypeScript to JavaScript without full type checking to speed up builds.
• Module Resolution - Optimizes the process of mapping module identifiers to file paths by caching package manager metadata.
• Explicit Variable Typing - Mandates explicit type annotations for local variables to improve codebase readability.
• Top-Level Type Standards - Requires explicit type annotations for top-level declarations while allowing implicit types for local variables.
• Source Code Security Analysis - Performs static analysis on source code to detect and prevent common security vulnerabilities.
• Coding Standards Enforcement - Applies standardized linting rules and architectural constraints to maintain consistency across large organizations.
• Toolchain Version Enforcement - Enforces specific versions of the engine and runtime across all developer machines.
• Dependency Graph Visualizations - Provides capabilities to map and export structural relationships between software modules to optimize builds and tests.
• Ecosystem Governance - Validates new library additions and ensures consistent versioning to maintain standards.
• API Specification Breaking Change Detectors - Detects breaking changes in exported API contracts during development to flag potential regressions.
• Lockfile Conflict Resolution - Investigates and resolves versioning conflicts specifically within PNPM lockfiles.
• Component Lifecycle Leak Prevention - Prevents memory leaks by requiring render trees to be explicitly unmounted in their originating file.
• Null Usage Restrictions - Prevents the use of the null keyword to encourage the adoption of safer alternative patterns.
• Peer Dependency Validators - Inspects package relationships to resolve conflicts resulting from mismatched peer dependency requirements.
• Engine Load Orchestration - Manages the explicit loading of the build engine, including installation monitoring and cancellation.
• Engine API Proxying - Proxies core management functions while ensuring the engine version matches the project configuration.
• Module Documentation Requirements - Ensures every module contains a README file that meets minimum length standards.
• Hook-Based Plugin Systems - Implements a hook-based plugin system allowing custom preprocessors to intercept and modify compilation strings.
• Transitive Dependency Detection - Prevents the import of modules from transitive dependencies that have not been explicitly declared in the manifest.
• Schema-Based Type Synthesis - Automatically synthesizes TypeScript types from structured document schemas for configuration and asset safety.
• Build Performance Profilers - Tracks task execution times to identify bottlenecks and optimize build performance.
• Stability Maturity Levels - Assigns stability and maturity levels to API members to identify scoping errors and ensure backward compatibility.
• TypeScript Static Analysis - Enforces module architecture, validates API contracts, and maintains code quality standards for TypeScript.
• Dependency Volume Tracking - Detects regressions in dependency volume by generating snapshots of all imported packages.
• React Component Best Practices - Implements specialized linting rules to identify deprecated React APIs and validate JSX configurations.
• Monorepo Management - Scalable monorepo build management.