crisp-react VS concurrently

If TypeScript doesn't put you off (it's really a good choice for both backend and frontend), have a look at Crisp React.

Ability to handle a monorepo with 2 builds depends on a particular monorepo. For example, Crisp React (https://github.com/winwiz1/crisp-react) has 2 logical projects: server (https://github.com/winwiz1/crisp-react/server) and client (https://github.com/winwiz1/crisp-react/client). Each project can be built separately. And this is the website built (both projects used) and deployed automatically by Cloudflare Pages: https://jamstack.winwiz1.com

You can use Crisp React to split a monolythic React SPA into several SPAs. Each SPA will have its own instance of React Router that is aware of the several pages that belong to that particular SPA.

The VM resorces such as CPU and memory should be used to handle API calls and return data. That's in case some webpages are dynamic and require API data. All static assetts including images are better to be served by a CDN. Which means your VM will serve the static assets to the CDN data centers and not to end users. Example: this website or that.

For deployment you can use Docker multi-staged build to ensure the backend run-time environment doesn't contain the client build-time dependencies e.g. client/node_modules/. It improves security and reduces container's storage footprint. An example for React client and node server is here. Although this has nothing to do with code/types sharing.

https://github.com/winwiz1/crisp-react/blob/master/docs/benc...

Tailwind is powerful, consistent and comprehensive but again the advantages come not without a drawback: In order to use it effectively one needs to learn/memorise yet another CSS. I have better things to do and think it's more efficient to use a set of CSS management approaches:

Crisp React uses the same Express server in production and debugging (for full stack builds only).

The alternative approach is to use not many but several tools in a manner that utilises advantages while minimising drawbacks. You can read about it here, scroll down to the CSS bullet.

You can have Login/authentication SPA, Reporting SPA, etc. Each SPA does its own routing as demonstrated here.

Before we begin, it's essential to ensure that we have Tailwind CSS and Concurrently installed. Tailwind CSS utility classes will be used for styling our project and will not affect the functionality. Concurrently will allow us to run our React frontend and server file simultaneously on our machines. For now, knowing the purpose that Concurrently serves is enough. We will see how to make it work later in the article.

To efficiently develop and test these applications, it’s essential to run React and Express servers simultaneously. One option is to manually start each server using separate terminal windows or tabs, but this approach is cumbersome and inefficient. An option is to use the concurrently or npm-run-all  CLI tools designed to run multiple npm-scripts in parallel or sequentially.

Let's configure our scripts in the package.json file to launch JSON-Server, to make the process easier we will use Concurrently, an NPM package that allow us to run multiple commands simultaneously.

[1] https://metatype.dev [2] https://github.com/metatypedev/metatype/blob/main/whiz.yaml [3] https://actix.rs/docs/actix/actor/ [4] https://github.com/open-cli-tools/concurrently

Lastly if you want to run your dev build tool and backend as a single command you could try something like pm2 (https://www.npmjs.com/package/pm2) or concurrently (https://www.npmjs.com/package/concurrently). This isn't necessary but might be a nice-to-have. NPM workspaces could help you organize this with a common package.json file too. (https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/using-npm/workspaces)

We attempted to use a combination of tsc --watch, concurrently and Nodemon, but started to run into things breaking left and right, e.g.

Now, the tsconfig.vitest.json seems to be the most "complete" (it will check app files as well as test files), so it's a good choice if you really had to choose one config and run with it (and you still get type checking in the IDE for each config). But, this doesn't include the files from tsconfig.config.json, and as an app grows, the "app" and "vitest" configs may diverge, so wouldn't it be best to use something like concurrently or npm-run-all to run vue-tsc against all 3 configs?