Monorepo Build Tools

• nixpkgs

  973 15,656 10.0 Nix

  Nix Packages collection & NixOS

  

(The most interesting build tool not covered, if it can be called that, is nix and how the nixpkgs monorepo is built or how nix might be used for a monorepo might be a topic for another future article. )

• nix-monorepo

  1 49 10.0 Elixir

  Discontinued An illustration of how you might use Nix in a large, multi-language project and in accordance with best practices

Nix is pretty cool, and I would say comparisons to Earthly are apt. I may tackle that in a follow-up. If you did a monorepo setup written in nix and then used something like Hydra for building, it might be a pretty nice solution.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• hydra

  5 1,048 8.7 Perl

  Hydra, the Nix-based continuous build system (by NixOS)

  

Nix is pretty cool, and I would say comparisons to Earthly are apt. I may tackle that in a follow-up. If you did a monorepo setup written in nix and then used something like Hydra for building, it might be a pretty nice solution.

• doit

  20 1,781 0.0 Python

  task management & automation tool

  

Instead, I use pydoit (which is basically a Python version of make). It's simple, flexible, and quite extensible. So, here's what I do with it:

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