CLI Commands

Complete reference for all available CLI commands in the nodejs.org repository, organized by purpose.

The repository uses pnpm as its package manager and Turborepo to orchestrate tasks across the monorepo. Most commands are run from the repository root; some are also available scoped to individual workspaces.

Node.js 24.x and pnpm 10.28.2 are required. See the devEngines field in the root package.json for authoritative version requirements.

Development

Root workspace

Command	Description
pnpm dev	Start the Next.js development server with hot reload
pnpm build	Production build for all packages and the site
pnpm deploy	Static-export build (NEXT_PUBLIC_STATIC_EXPORT=true)
pnpm start	Start the production Next.js server after build

apps/site

Command	Description
pnpm dev	next dev — development server
pnpm build	next build — production build (also runs build:blog-data first)
pnpm build:blog-data	Pre-computes blog metadata used by the RSS feeds and listing pages
pnpm build:blog-data:watch	Re-runs blog data compilation on file changes
pnpm deploy	Static export build
pnpm start	next start — serve the production build

# Start the development server
pnpm dev

# Build for production
pnpm build

# Start the production server
pnpm start

Code quality

Linting

Command	Description
pnpm lint	Run all linters (JS/TS, CSS, Markdown)
pnpm lint:fix	Run all linters with auto-fix enabled

The lint command is a composite that runs three sub-linters in sequence:

Sub-command	Tool	Targets
lint:js	ESLint	**/*.{js,mjs,ts,tsx}
lint:css	Stylelint	**/*.css
lint:md	ESLint + eslint-plugin-mdx	**/*.md?(x)

Each has a corresponding :fix variant that passes --fix to the underlying tool.

Formatting

Command	Description
pnpm prettier	Check formatting with Prettier (no changes written)
pnpm prettier:fix	Apply Prettier formatting
pnpm format	Alias that runs prettier:fix and all lint:fix tasks together

# Check formatting without making changes
pnpm prettier

# Apply Prettier formatting
pnpm prettier:fix

# Run all fixers at once
pnpm format

Type checking

pnpm lint:types

Runs tsc --noEmit across all TypeScript workspaces.

Testing

Command	Description
pnpm test	Run all unit tests
pnpm test:unit	Alias for pnpm test
pnpm test:ci	Run unit tests with CI reporters (lcov, JUnit, GitHub annotations)

# Run all unit tests
pnpm test

# Run tests with CI output formats
pnpm test:ci

The test:ci command sets NODE_OPTIONS to enable three reporters simultaneously:

NODE_OPTIONS="\
  --test-reporter=lcov --test-reporter-destination=lcov.info \
  --test-reporter=junit --test-reporter-destination=junit.xml \
  --test-reporter=@reporters/github --test-reporter-destination=stdout"

For Playwright end-to-end tests, run directly from apps/site:

pnpm --filter @node-core/website playwright

Storybook

Command	Description
pnpm storybook	Start the Storybook development server
pnpm storybook:build	Build a static Storybook for deployment

# Start Storybook
pnpm storybook

# Build static Storybook
pnpm storybook:build

Scripts

Release post generator

pnpm scripts:release-post -- --version=vXX.X.X

Generates a release blog post at apps/site/pages/en/blog/release/vX.Y.Z.md by fetching data from the Node.js dist server and GitHub changelog. Pass --force to overwrite an existing file:

pnpm scripts:release-post -- --version=v24.0.0 --force

See Writing Blog Posts for full usage details.

Cloudflare deployment

Command	Description
pnpm cloudflare:deploy	Build and deploy to Cloudflare Workers
pnpm cloudflare:preview	Local preview with wrangler dev

Compilation

pnpm compile

Runs the compile Turborepo task across all packages. Used to compile TypeScript packages (e.g. @node-core/ui-components) before publishing.