Possible to Install Turbo without npm or node?

[jbcpollak]

Summary

This is definitely "off book" so I'd understand if the answer is a blanket no, but I just wanted to check - we use Turbo to build an entirely non-JS project, because we like the simplicity of setup and the caching vs something like Bazel.

For our use case we run inside a dev container and the only reason we install nodejs in the container is to install Turbo.

Is there any way we could just jump to the rust crate a install that, or is there wrapper JS that is needed to use run Turbo?

Thanks.

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[anthonyshew]

We've included notes on this in our Support Policy.

The bit you likely care most about:

Core turbo functionality does not depend on the active Node.js version on your system, but some packages in the Turborepo ecosystem such as create-turbo, turbo-ignore, and eslint-config-turbo do.

[jbcpollak]

Thanks for the reference. The policy also says:

Core turbo functionality depends on the package managers in the JavaScript ecosystem and their implementations of Workspaces and lockfiles formats

Does this mean turbo requires a package manager to be installed?

Is there a source for downloading the released core turbo binaries independent of an npm package? (Ie, install it without npm i)?

Thanks

[anthonyshew]

We look in the lockfile for specific pieces of information about the relationships between your packages, though this isn't necessarily a requirement.

Yes, Turborepo is distributed through the npm registry, but you could also download source and build it yourself.