lerna VS turborepo

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.

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).

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.

If so, are you using a monorepo tool like Nx or Lerna? If not, start there and see if it solves your problem.

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

Tools for publishing, such as Lerna (when using the --conventional-commit flag), follow this convention when incrementing package versions and generating changelog files.

We could improve part of this by using something like Lerna. With the right configuration, Lerna can be really helpful.

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.

For more information, check out the PR

Turborepo: Smart build system for JavaScript/TypeScript monorepos

We’ve only scratched the surface of what we can do with Turborepo. You can find more examples in the Turborepo examples directory on GitHub. Skill Recordings on GitHub is also another great resource that has been around since Turborepo was first released.

git clone https://github.com/vercel/turborepo.git

I use https://turborepo.org/ to facilitate my monorepo. Essentially it's a way of structuring your configs, UI; apps etc and you consume each like an internal package. I find benefits for this as the kinds of sites I make will generally have an internal app, an admin panel and a marketing site. I can write UI, config etc in one place and consume them over the three projects to keep everything consistent.

The latest addition to the Composer Suite monorepo, Turborepo optimizes monorepo workflows by caching build artifacts. This may sound a little abstract and boring, but what this actually means is that when you build something within your monorepo, Turborepo will make sure only the things that it depends on are rebuilt; everything else will be retrieved from a cache that either lives on your local computer, or a remote cache server. Adding Turborepo to the Composer Suite monorepo pretty much halved CI build times, but it was also a way to teach Vercel, which I use for hosting the various example apps in the repo, to only actually deploy the ones that have changed since their last deployment. And that's really cool!

NB: "Turbo" also has other meanings in a React Native context, so don't confuse Hotwire Turbo Native with Turbo Modules or Turborepo (as used in create-t3-turbo, mentioned later here).

Personally I just use this: https://github.com/vercel/turborepo/tree/main/examples/with-tailwind

To set up our monorepo we will use Turborepo which will take care of installing the basic parameters for us.