lerna VS nx

Compare lerna vs nx and see what are their differences.

lerna

:dragon: Lerna is a fast, modern build system for managing and publishing multiple JavaScript/TypeScript packages from the same repository. (by lerna)
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lerna nx
159 314
34,936 19,407
0.5% 5.0%
9.2 9.9
4 days ago about 12 hours ago
TypeScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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lerna

Posts with mentions or reviews of lerna. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-06.
  • Nx 16.8 Release!!!
    5 projects | dev.to | 6 Sep 2023
    On Netlify's enterprise tier, approximately 46% of builds are monorepos, with the majority leveraging Nx and Lerna. Recognizing this trend, Netlify has focused on enhancing the setup and deployment experiences for monorepo projects. In particular they worked on an "automatic monorepo detection" feature. When you connect your project to GitHub, Netlify automatically detects if it's part of a monorepo, reads the relevant settings, and pre-configures your project. This eliminates the need for manual setup. This feature also extends to local development via the Netlify CLI.
  • Mocha/Chai with TypeScript (2023 update)
    3 projects | dev.to | 12 Aug 2023
  • Help with library implementation in a big webapp
    2 projects | /r/webdev | 26 Jun 2023
    This is the exact problem monorepos were born to solve. Not only will a monorepo let you share UI components, you'll be able to gradually add shared application logic as well (for instance, do all of your apps have their own logic for connecting to a database? you could roll that into a shared library with a monorepo). There are a lot of tools for accomplishing this in JS, but probably the most popular is lerna, which is built on top of NX (though lots of teams roll their own monorepo in nx without lerna, which IMO is a totally valid option).
  • How to Build and Publish Your First React NPM Package
    8 projects | dev.to | 9 Jun 2023
    To begin, you need to prepare your environment. A few ways to build a React package include tools like Bit, Storybook, Lerna, and TSDX. However, for this tutorial, you will use a zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules called Microbundle.
  • Utility for making sure that I'm using the right `@types/react`
    2 projects | /r/typescript | 5 Jun 2023
    If so, are you using a monorepo tool like Nx or Lerna? If not, start there and see if it solves your problem.
  • [AskJS] Is there a silver bullet for consuming Typescript libraries in a Monorepo?
    5 projects | /r/javascript | 9 May 2023
    I mean I don't know what your monorepo looks like, but for example infernojs (actually written with typescript) uses lerna, and lerna seems simpler than typescript references
  • Understanding npm Versioning
    3 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2023
    Tools for publishing, such as Lerna (when using the --conventional-commit flag), follow this convention when incrementing package versions and generating changelog files.
  • How to split an Angular app into micro-frontend apps
    5 projects | dev.to | 27 Mar 2023
    We could improve part of this by using something like Lerna. With the right configuration, Lerna can be really helpful.
  • Need help making sense of TRPC + express + React setup
    2 projects | /r/typescript | 27 Mar 2023
    It feels dirty to be adding express as a dependency to a react project, but I'm pretty sure TRPC requires all of client and server code to be in the same node.js project, since types are shared. I've read that you can use a tool like Lerna to share types between node projects, but it requires a build step, which would diminish the benefits of TRPC.
  • What's New With Lerna 6.5?
    4 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2023
    For more information, check out the PR

nx

Posts with mentions or reviews of nx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-26.
  • Hacktoberfest 2023 with Ghostfolio
    9 projects | dev.to | 26 Sep 2023
    Ghostfolio is written in TypeScript and organized as an Nx workspace, utilizing the latest framework releases. The backend is based on NestJS in combination with PostgreSQL as a database together with Prisma and Redis for caching. The frontend is built with Angular.
  • Enhancing Redwood: A Guide to Implementing Zod for Data Validation and Schema Sharing Between the API and Web Layers
    6 projects | dev.to | 24 Sep 2023
    Note: I'm not a React, Yarn or even WebPack expert. I used to be an Angular developer, and I work with Nx for workspace management.
  • Nx 16.8 Release!!!
    5 projects | dev.to | 6 Sep 2023
    Nx is also coming up on 20k Github stars please help us get there!
    5 projects | dev.to | 6 Sep 2023
    On Netlify's enterprise tier, approximately 46% of builds are monorepos, with the majority leveraging Nx and Lerna. Recognizing this trend, Netlify has focused on enhancing the setup and deployment experiences for monorepo projects. In particular they worked on an "automatic monorepo detection" feature. When you connect your project to GitHub, Netlify automatically detects if it's part of a monorepo, reads the relevant settings, and pre-configures your project. This eliminates the need for manual setup. This feature also extends to local development via the Netlify CLI.
  • Deploy Angular Universal To Firebase Cloud Functions
    3 projects | dev.to | 29 Aug 2023
    In this example, I am using NX monorepo. I have my Angular Universal as one application and cloud functions as another application. If you don’t use NX or even some time has passed since publishing this blog post, you may want to visit Integrate web frameworks with Hosting from Firebase, however, there is an existing issue on Unable to detect the web framework in use when using angular app within nx monorepo.
  • Qwikify your Development with Nx
    4 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2023
    In the ever-evolving web development landscape, efficiency and modularity have become paramount. This is where Nx and Qwik come into play.
    4 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2023
    👩‍💻 Nx GitHub
  • Evergreen Tooling - More than Just CodeMods
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Jul 2023
    Also, if you haven’t already, give us a ⭐️ on Github: https://github.com/nrwl/nx. We’d appreciate it 😃.
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Jul 2023
    (Source: https://nx.dev/getting-started/why-nx)
  • React monorepo with open-source apps and proprietary libs
    2 projects | /r/react | 19 Jul 2023
    Oh can I address theses issues. I already looked at tools like Nx or Bit, but they aren't matching our needs with closed source libs.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lerna and nx you can also consider the following projects:

turborepo - Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turborepo and Turbopack. [Moved to: https://github.com/vercel/turbo]

single-spa - The router for easy microfrontends

vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

create-react-app - Set up a modern web app by running one command.

changesets - 🦋 A way to manage your versioning and changelogs with a focus on monorepos

pnpm - Fast, disk space efficient package manager

Bazel - a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

webpack - A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.