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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Monorepos! Workspaces, pnpm, turborepo + more!

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk all about monorepos - the why's and the how's of using them on your projects. Kontent by Kentico - Sponsor Kontent by Kentico is a headless CMS that provides live editing experience to non-technical users and hands you the technical tools to build websites, mobile apps, voice assistants, or anything else where you need content. Use REST API or GraphQL and get your content via the global Fastly CDN. Designed to unify all your content and operations, in compliance with ISO27001 and SOC2Type2 certifications.Spin up a new project today and discover Kontent. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It's an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the "How did you hear about us?" section. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 01:46 Our experiences with monorepos 05:04 Why use monorepos? 09:37 How long have we been using monorepos? 10:16 Tools for starting a monorepo pnpm Nom link 16:22 Sponsor: Kontent by Kentico 17:33 What's the process for managing libraries? 20:10 Installing / uninstalling things 21:07 Shared dependencies 27:45 Sponsor: LogRocket "ui:dev": "pnpm recursive run dev --filter @leveluptuts/ui", "update": "pnpm recursive up -L -i" 29:23 Turborepo Turborepo 39:32 nX nx 45:38 Sponsor: Freshbooks 46:32 Lerna Lerna 48:09 Rushjs Rushjs 52:35 Sick Picks 59:17 Shameless Plugs ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Wyze v3, 10 micro sd Wes: Tineco A11 Vaccum Shameless Plugs Scott: Astro Course - Sign up for the year and save 50%! Wes: All Courses Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

Welcome to syntax the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there today we've

0:16.2

got a really good episode for you on mono repos and a whole bunch of the tools that surround

0:23.0

running a mono repo. We'll talk about what a mono repo is. Let's do a little sneak peek

0:29.1

of what it is. It's running multiple projects or multiple things in one single get repo and

0:35.0

and being able to automate, starting and updating dependencies, all that good stuff today we are

0:39.4

sponsored by three awesome companies. We got a brand new sponsor today content by Kintiko which

0:46.4

handles all of your content management. We've got log rocket JavaScript session replay and

0:52.9

fresh books cloud accounting. We'll talk about all them partway through the episode. How you doing

0:57.0

today, Mr. Scott Talinsky? Oh, I am all over the place. I thought we were just just one of those

1:04.4

nights where like all sorts of things, you know, having the dogs got to get up in the middle of the night

1:08.5

and all. Yeah, weird and wacky things. The next thing you know it, it's the morning and you're trying

1:13.1

to get your brain moving. It's been a rough one for me today, but yeah, I do it all right other than that.

1:18.6

All right. We just had our first major snow storm of the winter. The kids are it's funny. The kids

1:26.4

have been home from school for all of Christmas and then they were home because of COVID and finally

1:33.5

they're going back. Everyone's so happy and the first day they're going back snow day.

1:39.6

But they're super happy about it. So we're stoked that they can play in it. All right. Well,

1:46.0

let's get into it. Maybe we should just start off with our own experiences with monorepos

1:51.2

ourselves. So specifically, I have never really dipped into building a monorepo myself until lately.

1:58.4

I had worked on a couple open source projects. The Keystone JS is a huge monorepo. But what is

2:05.1

popular is like, for example, I have my like boss monster, which is my course platform. And inside

2:11.4

of that, there's there's many things. There's the video player, which is its own react package that

2:16.8

I've created. And there's also I have an entire admin dashboard, which is next JS. And then I have

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