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Nadle v0.5.0 released – Monorepo Support & Interactive Improvements

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Nam Hoang Le
Nam Hoang Le
Creator of Nadle

Nadle v0.5.0 is our biggest release yet, introducing full monorepo support, interactive UX improvements, and enhanced performance tracking. This version includes breaking changes—please review them carefully.

🚀 What’s New in 0.5.0?​

  • Monorepo Support: Nadle can now seamlessly manage and execute tasks across multiple packages in your monorepo, with dependency-aware workflows and blazing fast parallel execution.
  • Improved Configuration: Enhanced flexibility for workspace and package-level settings.
  • Fuzzy and interactive task selection: Quickly find and pick tasks with smart suggestions and an interactive mode.
  • Performance insights: Use --summary to see the slowest tasks and optimize your workflow.
  • defineTask factory: Create tasks with a simple, type-safe API.

🚨 Breaking Changes​

  • configurations renamed to options Update any existing defineTask or configure usage accordingly.

✨ Highlights​

Monorepo Support​

  • Cross-workspace task dependencies
  • Workspace aliasing and scoped execution based on cwd
  • Inject root-level tasks into workspaces
  • Improved workspace task detection and workspace resolution
  • Fuzzy matching and auto-correction for workspace and task names

Developer Experience​

  • Interactive mode for selecting tasks
  • --summary flag to show top slowest tasks after execution
  • Enhanced task timing with performance.now()
  • Graceful cancellation of other tasks on failure
  • defineTask() factory for clearer task definitions

API & Config Enhancements​

  • AliasOption type and MaybeArray support for more flexible options
  • JSDoc for all public APIs
  • configure() now restricted to root config only

🐛 Bug Fixes​

  • Prevent traversing upward to find config files
  • Normalize workspace paths for Windows
  • Ensure resolved tasks are printed after the welcome line
  • Fix footer appearing during task selection

🧱 Internal Changes​

  • Internal event emitter system
  • Buffered task registration
  • Unified task execution handler
  • executionTracker for future API support
  • Improved error handling and SonarQube fixes
  • Additional workspace tests and Windows-specific adjustments
  • Monorepo setup and internal structure reorganization

📝 Documentation​

  • API Reference added
  • Updated README and package metadata