turborepo VS typescript-go

GitHub: vercel/turborepo

When you setup a monorepo using turbo, the basic template gives you 3 packages by default. This can be found in turborepo/examples/basic.

Next, let’s create monorepo with Turborepo.

> Look at the dependency tree for a next

Looks ok to me: https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=next

Ironically, most of the dependencies are actually Rust crates used by swc and turbopack [1]. Try running cargo tree on either of those crates, it's enlightening to say the least. And of course, Node has a built in file watcher, and even the most popular third party package for file watching (Chokidar) has a single dependency [3].

[1] https://github.com/vercel/turborepo/blob/main/Cargo.toml

[2] https://github.com/swc-project/swc/blob/main/Cargo.toml

[3] https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=chokidar

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!

You didn't read the article. It wasn't a rewrite, it was a port.

https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/410

Here's the FAQs, where they explain the decision to go with Go and not, say, rust.

https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/categ...

First of all, the original TypeScript compiler under the hood is moving in the new version 7 from JavaScript to Go. That is, there will be conditionally TypeScript 6 (JS) and TypeScript 7 (Go). This was done mainly because of the scaling problem when used in very large projects, but also, of course, because of the speed.

Since you wrote this it looks like [Anders replied](https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411#d...) to one of the threads.

I have to agree with the sentiment that is a success story that the team is allowed to use the best tool for the job, even if it suffers from "not built here".

This is really healthy and encouraging to see in these large OSS corporate-sponsored projects, so kudos to you and the team for making the pragmatic choice.

I think they answered in their FAQ here: https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/455#d....

If I got it correctly, they created a node native module that allows synchronous communication on standard I/O between external processes.

So, this node module will make possible the communication between the typescript compiler GO process, that will expose an “API server compiler”, and a client side JavaScript process.

They don’t think it will be possible to port all APIs and some/most of them will be different than today.