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Posted on Edited on Originally published at vznjs.github.io

Hello, vx

vx runs your monorepo's tasks and caches the results. It is built on
Bun, and nothing sits behind a paid cloud.

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Run it twice

Four packages, each with a build (bun build) and a test
(bun test). Eight tasks:

$ vx run build test --all --force
  tasks     8 success · 8 total
  cache     local 8↑
  time      134ms

$ vx run build test --all
  cache     local 8✓
  time      21ms
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The second run finds every result in the cache, so nothing runs.
Timed from outside, start-up included:

Run Command Fastest
cold vx run build test --all --force 158.1 ms
warm vx run build test --all 115.0 ms

Min of 20 runs (median 170.9 ms cold, 138.8 ms warm) · Linux x64, 4 cores, Bun 1.4.4 · vx 0be0367 · 2026-10-23

Most of the warm 115 ms is Bun loading vx. The run itself reports 21 ms.

What you get, what you don't

Where What
Core graph, keys, scheduler, local cache, running on this machine
Plugins remote caches, remote execution, telemetry, CI summaries, lockfile keys
Never a hosted dashboard, a daemon, a cloud you must buy into

With no plugins, vx still runs and caches. You add a plugin by naming
it in .vx/workspace.ts.

Next

More at vznjs.github.io/vx.


Originally published on the vx blog. vx is open-source (MIT) task orchestration with a build cache: vznjs.github.io/vx · GitHub.

Written with AI assistance.

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