The magic of monorepos

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

KBall and Juri dive deep into monorepos, their benefits and gotchas, and how Nx helps you improve the performance and maintainability of a monorepo setup.

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Featuring:

• Juri Strumpflohner – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• NX
• NX Github
• Monorepo.tools
• ESLint and TypeScript
• Taming Code Organization with Module Boundaries in Nx

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Opener
(00:32) - Sponsor: Square
(02:08) - Intro
(02:48) - Welcoming Juri
(04:21) - Getting to know NX
(12:00) - Monorepos
(16:42) - Sponsor: Hasura
(18:42) - Monorepo pros & cons
(25:53) - Linting & tooling
(30:02) - NX Graph
(31:18) - Dependency downfalls
(35:34) - Sponsor: Sourcegraph
(38:37) - Getting started
(45:34) - The power of plugins
(49:28) - What's next
(52:38) - NX & Python (?)
(54:51) - Goodbye!
(55:47) - Outro