🛠️ @nodeboot/tools – Node-Boot CI/CD & Automation Helpers

Overview

The @nodeboot/tools package contains the internal automation scripts used by the Node-Boot monorepo during development, validation, and release workflows.

It is focused on repository health checks rather than runtime features. Today, the package provides helpers to:

• validate type dependency declarations for published packages,
• verify local workspace dependency versions, and
• run documentation quality checks with Vale.

✨ Features

✅ Type dependency validation – scans generated dist/index.d.ts files and checks whether required type packages are declared correctly.
✅ Workspace dependency verification – ensures local package version ranges match the actual versions in the monorepo.
✅ Docs quality automation – runs Vale against Markdown files for writing quality and spelling checks.
✅ CI-friendly scripts – designed to be called from package.json scripts and GitHub Actions workflows.

📦 Installation

Install it as a development dependency:

pnpm add -D @nodeboot/tools

@nodeboot/tools does not expose a bin entry in package.json. The package is intended to be invoked through script paths such as node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/....

🚀 Usage

Inside this package itself, the available npm scripts are:

{
    "scripts": {
        "nodeboot:check:type-deps": "node ./dist/check-type-dependencies.js",
        "nodeboot:check:local-deps": "node ./dist/verify-local-dependencies.js",
        "nodeboot:check:docs-quality": "node ./dist/check-docs-quality.js"
    }
}

When consuming @nodeboot/tools from another repository or workspace, a typical setup is to expose the tools through your own package.json scripts:

{
    "scripts": {
        "nodeboot:check:type-deps": "node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/check-type-dependencies.js",
        "nodeboot:check:local-deps": "node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/verify-local-dependencies.js",
        "nodeboot:check:docs": "node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/check-docs-quality.js"
    }
}

This is exactly how the root package.json in the Node-Boot monorepo wires the package.

🔍 Available Commands

1️⃣ check-type-dependencies.js

Validates that published packages with generated type declarations have the right type-related dependencies.

What it checks

• only checks packages that are not private,
• require a types entry in package.json, and
• already have a generated dist/index.d.ts file.

It scans imports in dist/index.d.ts and then verifies whether:

• required @types/* packages are present,
• type packages were incorrectly placed in devDependencies, or
• unnecessary @types/* packages were placed in runtime dependencies.

Example

node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/check-type-dependencies.js

How Node-Boot uses it

In the monorepo root:

{
    "scripts": {
        "nodeboot:check:type-deps": "node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/check-type-dependencies.js"
    }
}

In CI and release workflows:

- name: build all packages
  run: pnpm build

- name: verify type dependencies
  run: pnpm nodeboot:check:type-deps

Build first. This script inspects generated dist/index.d.ts files, so packages must already be compiled.

2️⃣ verify-local-dependencies.js

Checks whether workspace packages depend on the correct versions of other local workspace packages.

What it checks

For each workspace package, the script inspects:

• dependencies
• devDependencies
• peerDependencies
• optionalDependencies

If a package depends on another local package using a range that does not satisfy that local package's actual version, the script reports it.

It skips:

• empty ranges, and
• link: dependencies.

Fix mode

You can automatically rewrite invalid ranges to ^<localVersion> with --fix:

node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/verify-local-dependencies.js --fix

Example check

node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/verify-local-dependencies.js

This command is exposed by the monorepo as:

{
    "scripts": {
        "nodeboot:check:local-deps": "node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/verify-local-dependencies.js"
    }
}

3️⃣ check-docs-quality.js

Runs documentation quality checks on Markdown files using Vale.

What it does

• lints tracked Markdown files in the repository,
• or, if file paths are provided as arguments, lints only those files,
• reports spelling/writing issues through Vale,
• suggests updating .github/styles/vocab.txt when new valid words are needed.

Local vs CI behavior

• Locally: if vale is not installed, the script skips the check with a message.
• In CI: if vale is not installed, the script fails.

When no file list is provided, the script gathers Markdown files from git ls-files and excludes:

• ADOPTERS.md
• OWNERS.md

Examples

Check all tracked Markdown files:

node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/check-docs-quality.js

Check only specific files:

node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/check-docs-quality.js README.md packages/tools/README.md

Monorepo script:

{
    "scripts": {
        "nodeboot:check:docs": "node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/check-docs-quality.js"
    }
}

🏗️ How This Package Is Used in the Node-Boot Monorepo

The repository currently uses @nodeboot/tools in a few real places:

Root package.json

{
    "scripts": {
        "nodeboot:check:type-deps": "node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/check-type-dependencies.js",
        "nodeboot:check:local-deps": "node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/verify-local-dependencies.js",
        "nodeboot:check:docs": "node ./node_modules/@nodeboot/tools/dist/check-docs-quality.js"
    },
    "lint-staged": {
        "*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}": ["pnpm tsc", "pnpm nodeboot:check:type-deps", "pnpm lint-format:fix"]
    }
}

GitHub Actions

Both .github/workflows/ci.yml and .github/workflows/release.yml run:

- name: verify type dependencies
  run: pnpm nodeboot:check:type-deps

This makes check-type-dependencies.js part of the monorepo's real CI/release validation path.

⚠️ Notes

• These tools are meant for automation and repository maintenance, not for application runtime code.
• check-type-dependencies.js is most useful for packages that publish TypeScript declaration files.
• check-docs-quality.js depends on Vale being installed if you want docs checks to run locally.
• Because there is no package bin, consumers typically expose these scripts through their own package.json commands.

📄 License

MIT