Four Pillars and a Base: The Nuts and Bolts of a Monorepo

Everybody’s talking about them, but nobody’s doing them. Well, we took up the challenge, and are. What I am going to show is how we implemented a Monorepo project, and why. The nuts and bolts of creating a repo based on npm packages, the structure of the code of the apps in the monorepo, and creating packages with the common code. Also, and maybe most importantly, how we test the whole thing, how we build the project, how we deploy it in production, and how we monitor it. It’s going to be a really boring talk, full of lots of tips we learned in blood in the last year of implementing this. So be prepared to be bored! And, hopefully, educated…