Dependencies

Tasks can depend on other tasks either from the same directory or different directories. A dependency between tasks from different directories is called a workspace dependency. A prefix of # is used to indicate a workspace dependency.

In the following example, the build task depends on the test task from the same directory, and the test task depends on #test, which is the test task from each directory listed in dependencies.

A workspace dependency resolves to every directory in dependencies where the task is defined. A task is considered defined if, after processing every cadence.json file, it contains a cmd property and was not skipped.

{
  "dependencies": ["../lib"],
  "tasks": {
    "build": {
      "cmd": "bun build ./cli.ts --compile",
      "depends_on": ["test"]
    },
    "test": {
      "cmd": "bun test",
      "depends_on": ["#test"]
    }
  }
}

When the following command is run from the terminal, the tasks will be executed in the order ../lib:test, test, build:

cadence run build