Deploy From a Monorepo: One Repository, Several Apps

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Full tutorial with screenshots: https://blog.light-cloud.com/tutorials/deploy-from-a-monorepo

Part 1 of 2 of the series Monorepos on Light Cloud.

Deploy a monorepo on Light Cloud: one app per repository folder, each with its own Root directory, and pushes that rebuild only the app whose folder changed.

Level: Beginner · Time: about 20 minutes · Plan: Free · Stack: React, Express, Node.js, GitHub

Steps

• Step 1: Get the example repository
• Step 2: Make a folder for the project
• Step 3: Deploy the API from apps/api
• Step 4: Deploy the web app from apps/web
• Step 5: Push a change to one app
• Step 6: Preview a branch

Source code: https://github.com/light-cloud-com/tutorial-monorepo

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