What is MonoRepo?

• Organising all your projects/apps or packages in a single codebase.
• A workspace is the building block of a monorepo.
• A monorepo contains several workspaces.
• Each Workspace will have it’s own package.json file.
• A monorepo has a root workspace, so whenever your install in any dependency in the root it will also be installed in all the workspaces.
• Installing in workspaces.

npm install express --workspace=server

The alternative setup is called a polyrepo - multiple codebases which are published and versioned separately.

Why to use turbo repo to create mono repo?

The main issue is the scalability. The processes (lint, build and test) will take longer as the workspace gets bulky.

So we use turbo repo to create our mono repos.

Monorepo tooling-

There are multiple tools used to create and manage a monorepo. such nx and turbo.

Google uses it’s own tool known as blaze

Creating a mono repo using turborepo

npx create-turbo@latest