Solving Turborepo + Bun Workspace Dependency & Script Issues

[nithin-raj-9100]

Critical Fixes & Cleanup Steps 🧹

1. Root package.json Fixes

{
  "name": "shadcn-ui-monorepo",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "private": true,
- "packageManager": "[email protected]", // Although using `bunx --bun shadcn@canary init added pnpm as packageManager`
+ "packageManager": "[email protected]",
+ "workspaces": [
    "apps/*",
    "packages/*"
  ],
  "scripts": {
-   "dev": "turbo dev",
+   "dev:web": "turbo dev --filter=./apps/web"
  }
}

Why it mattered:

• workspaces is required for Bun's workspace resolution
• Explicit package manager declaration avoids Turbo errors
• Filtered script prevents recursive turbo invocations

Files to remove

• All pnpm related files that are pnpm-lock.json pnpm-workspace.yaml

rm -rf pnpm-*

Final Directory Structure

├── apps/
│   └── web/ # Next.js + shadcn
├── packages/
│   ├── eslint-config/
│   ├── typescript-config/
│   └── ui/ # shadcn components
├── package.json
├── turbo.json
└── bun.lock
└── package.json

This battle-tested configuration now runs Next.js + shadcn/ui with:

bun run dev:web

Adding shadcn/ui Components 🎨

Add Components to Your Project
Run the add command in your app directory:

cd apps/web
bunx --bun shadcn@canary add [COMPONENT]

What Happens:

Components are installed under packages/ui/src/components
Import paths are automatically updated in apps/web

Importing Components

Import components from the shared UI package:

import { Button } from "@workspace/ui/components/button"
import { Input } from "@workspace/ui/components/input"

These changes should work without any error

[frankMamoPay]

For bun we shouldn't use pnpm to install packages:
For package.json, workspace should be updated:

	"workspaces": ["packages/*", "apps/*"]

[nithin-raj-9100]

Apparently by default shadcn@canary creates the pnpm related files and hence assumes pnpm is the package manager which is not we wanted

[salvinoto]

Ya I cant even create a project with bun gives me this

Something went wrong. Please check the error below for more details.
If the problem persists, please open an issue on GitHub.

Command failed with exit code 1: bun install
Resolving dependencies
Resolved, downloaded and extracted [26]
error: Workspace dependency "@workspace/eslint-config" not found

Searched in "./*"

Workspace documentation: https://bun.sh/docs/install/workspaces


error: Workspace dependency "@workspace/typescript-config" not found

Searched in "./*"

Workspace documentation: https://bun.sh/docs/install/workspaces

error: @workspace/eslint-config@workspace:* failed to resolve
error: @workspace/typescript-config@workspace:* failed to resolve
bun install v1.2.0 (b0c5a765)****

[nithin-raj-9100]

Yes, this is what exactly even I faced

[Burrakkozan]

First, I ran the following command to create the project:

bunx create-turbo@latest -e with-tailwind [name]

Then, I navigated to the packages/ui directory and created the ShadCN UI config file with the following content:

{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema.json",
  "style": "new-york",
  "rsc": true,
  "tsx": true,
  "tailwind": {
    "config": "../tailwind-config/tailwind.config.ts",
    "css": "src/styles.css",
    "baseColor": "zinc",
    "cssVariables": true
  },
  "iconLibrary": "lucide",
  "aliases": {
    "components": "@repo/ui/components",
    "utils": "@repo/ui/lib/utils",
    "hooks": "@repo/ui/hooks",
    "lib": "@repo/ui/lib",
    "ui": "@repo/ui/components"
  }
}

After setting that up, I initialized ShadCN UI and added components with the following commands:

bunx shadcn@canary init
bunx shadcn@canary add [component-name]