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Should we switch to a monorepo?

Jonathan Hall on August 31, 2021

Once upon a time I was working with a company that had a large number of repos (probably ~60 in total; 20 or so in regular use). This was a bit pai...
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Yair Even Or

I am working for a client with a few repos, eventually everything is bundled together and the amount of complexity is HUGE. This is a HUGE system with TONS of components and scenarios, and a team-member suggested switching to monorepo because of all the shared dependencies in package.json but i'm not sure it's worth the mess

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Jonathan Hall

I'd ask them the same question: "What problems will it solve? And what new problems will it introduce?"

You're probably right that it's not worth the change. But there are times when it is.