Filtering: token for specifying current working directory

[kenrick95]

In a big monorepo that contains lots of packages for various teams, when a developer develops a single project (say package-X located at packages/package-X/), it is much faster to install dependencies for that projects only.

Speaking for myself (and some of my colleagues), our preferred workflow are:

1. cd into the package directory
2. install that package's dependencies
3. start development script

Point 2 can be achieved using either:

• pnpm install --filter "package-X..."
• pnpm install --filter "{packages/package-X/}..."

However, when the package name or path is long, these are inconvenient to type. So I wonder if there are token for filtering that specifies current working directory?

I imagine something like ($cwd is typed verbatim):

pnpm install --filter "{$cwd}..."

When pnpm do the filtering $cwd will be replaced with the current working directory where the command is issued.

What do you think?

I'm open to other filtering token syntax too

[sebastian-fredriksson-bernholtz]

pnpm install --filter .