Microbundle VS lerna

I discovered microbundle lately, and I would like to share with you a mini template with the bare essentials and comfort to develop your packages with TypeScript.

For package authoring - microbundle is a handy boilerplate (I would avoid tsdx personally - it’s basically been abandoned for turborepo but that’s not apparent at first glance).

My tech stack was React + Typescript, Storybook for docs, vite.js for build instead of webpack, microbundle for bundling (basically a no-config rollup wrapper), and Google's release please bot for handling release/deployment.

Setting up a modern Typescript or Javascript development stack is a daunting task, there are a lot of moving parts, and sometimes the whole process seems like magic, so I switched to Microbundle. While microbundle handles the compilation, there are a lot of other moving parts that need to be set up to start developing with Nodejs/Typescript (CI, tests, linting, etc). So I've created an opinionated template repository with Typescript, Microbundle, Jest, eslint, husky, prettier, github actions, pnpm, and a bunch of other scripts. It enables me to start developing a library immediately by using the repository as a starter template. Let me know what you think and if some processes could be improved, or some valuable tools that could be added. Pull requests and suggestions are welcomed.

I would recommend starting by using https://github.com/developit/microbundle , as it has pretty good default behavior for generating library output.

Check out microbundle, which is what TSDX started as a typescript alternative to.

I’m quite happy with Microbundle

Pick up Microbundle or something similar.

For more information, check out the PR

🧠 Lerna Docs

we completely redesigned both the website and docs at https://lerna.js.org

Our app will be a monorepo with Okta authentication, using React for the frontend and Fastify for the backend. Fastify is a highly performant web framework with low overhead that we'll connect to a PostgreSQL database. We'll also use Lerna to manage the frontend and backend apps in a monorepo.

Lerna: Fast and modern build system for managing and publishing multiple JavaScript/TypeScript packages from the same repository

There are multiple options on how to do this. `lerna` was the first tool to the party - strapi uses lerna (based on the `lerna.json` file in the repo). If that is your only interest, https://lerna.js.org/ will probably suffice.

There are many tools like Lerna, Nx, Turborepo, Moon, Rush, and Bazel, to name a few. Today, we'll be using Turborepo, as it's lightweight, flexible, and easy to use.

He was booted from the Lerna project because, without any time for discussion, changed the MIT licence suddenly despite having no involvement with the project for over a year https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/1616

I'm not sure there was an official announcement, but there was a GitHub issue https://github.com/lerna/lerna/issues/2703 Nrwl has since taken ownership of the project in June.