Monorepos Explained: Benefits, Drawbacks, and When to Use Them

This article was originally published on bmf-tech.com . Overview Summarizing about monorepos. What is a Monorepo? A monorepo is a single repository that manages the code of multiple projects. In contrast, managing with multiple repositories is called a polyrepo or multi-repo. Although it is one of the management strategies for microservices, it is not premised on microservices. It is not synonymous with a monolith. Perspectives on Monorepo Let's organize the perspectives on operating a monorepo. Code Autonomy When operated by multiple teams, code outside the team's jurisdiction can also be changed. In GitHub, management with CODEOWNERS can organize the jurisdiction. It seems necessary to establish regulations relying on some tools. Big Ball of Mud The complexity of dependencies between codes can lead to a big ball of mud. This also seems to require a solution relying on some tools. For example, Nx allows you to create libraries with public APIs and visualize dependencies in a graph. Sc