ts-monorepo VS turborepo

1. Linking libs with tsconfig paths. This approach involves setting a tsconfig.json paths object which maps the package name, to the local filesystem location. Eg. "paths": {"@org/lib":"../libs/lib"} - Nx uses this approach for their Integrated Monorepo configuration https://nx.dev/tutorials/integrated-repo-tutorial https://github.com/NiGhTTraX/ts-monorepo.

FYI I tried renaming packages/bar/index.ts to index.js and adding allowJs: true in its tsconfig.json and tsconfig.build.json and everything works as expected.

Give https://github.com/NiGhTTraX/ts-monorepo a try :) It uses path aliases to map your imports to the source code inside the monorepo.

Make sure you've copied the jest craco config and that you've set up path aliases accordingly.

You can check https://github.com/NiGhTTraX/ts-monorepo.

FWIW https://github.com/NiGhTTraX/ts-monorepo works in a similar way by using path aliases instead. The result is the same (imports resolve to monorepo source code), but this approach doesn't prevent you from publishing any of the packages (check the repo and the linked docs for more details).

You didn't give an example of how your imports look, but I'm assuming you're trying to use absolute imports for the lib files like from 'lib/src/...'. Project references don't rewrite the imports in any way, they just optimize the builds by caching referenced projects. You'll want to use path aliases instead. Feel free to check out https://github.com/NiGhTTraX/ts-monorepo for full examples.

You can use two tsconfig.json files and in one of them configure path aliases to map your package names to the source code, effectively "overriding" package.json#main. You can find examples here https://github.com/NiGhTTraX/ts-monorepo.

Here is one I liked that is very basic, although I removed lerna from it personally. Shows examples of package sharing and a bunch of popular libraries. Next not nuxt but you get the idea. https://github.com/NiGhTTraX/ts-monorepo

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.