Structuring Code in Monorepos
In the previous chapter, you learned about everything to create and publish great libraries and tools to enhance your projects. While some packages are created in a bit of vacuum, most already have a consuming application in mind. In this case, having two separate repositories – that is, one for the application and one for the library – is quite some overhead. After all, any change to the library should be at least partially tested before the library is published. A good way to make this relation more efficient is to structure this code in a monorepo.
A monorepo is a single code repository that hosts multiple projects. Since we focus on Node.js projects, we can say that a monorepo is a repository containing multiple packages identified by their own package.json.
Today, monorepos are frequently used to power some of the largest Node.js project code bases in the world. If you want to properly read and contribute to projects such as Angular...
