[rwieruch]

Over the past four years, I’ve set up three monorepos for different companies as contract work. The experience was positive, but it’s essential to know your tools.

Since our monorepos were used exclusively for frontend applications, we could rely entirely on the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem, which kept things manageable.

What I learned is that a good monorepo often behaves like a “polyrepo in disguise.” Each project within it can be developed, hosted, and even deployed independently, yet they all coexist in the same codebase. The key benefit: all projects can share code (like UI components) to ensure a consistent look and feel across the entire product suite.

If you're looking for a more practical guide, check out [0].

[0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/javascript-monorepos/

[wocram]

This isn't a polyrepo in disguise. This is a monorepo done correctly.