Projects: inspecting local repos in a new way
We just shipped Projects in Room Service.
A new way to inspect your local development folders and understand what’s actually taking up space.
Projects analyzes each repo and groups its contents into things like assets, generated data, git storage, and logs. So instead of just seeing folders, you can understand what each part represents and why the project is large.
It also surfaces things you don’t normally see while working, like build outputs, caches, and repository internals.
Works across different setups and recognizes patterns from modern development tools, monorepos, and common environments.
Read-only by design. No cleanup, no risk. Just a clear view of what your project is made of.
Projects also integrates directly with the Command Bar.
So you can navigate projects faster and access related actions in one place.
Making it easier to move through project data and review what’s taking up space.
Full changelog:
roomservices.pro/changelog
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I am curious how well it works with monorepos. That is usually where things get complicated and traditional file explorers start to lose meaning.
Room Service
@alex_j_jemmy Hey, It handles monorepos better than a plain file explorer in a few concrete ways.
Projects detects common monorepo setups like pnpm, Turbo and Nx, walks nested repo containers like packages/apps/services, and avoids wasting time inside heavy folders like node_modules, build outputs and caches. It’s not trying to be a full workspace-graph IDE view, but it does make monorepos much easier to inspect from a storage and cleanup perspective.