Working With a Monorepo: Shared Packages and npm Workspaces

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Full tutorial with screenshots: https://blog.light-cloud.com/tutorials/monorepo-shared-packages

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

Share code between the apps of a monorepo on Light Cloud with npm workspaces: what builds from a folder, why the container fails, the Dockerfile that fixes it.

Level: Intermediate · Time: about 30 minutes · Plan: Free · Stack: npm workspaces, React, Docker, Express

Steps

• Step 1: Create the shared package
• Step 2: Use it in both apps
• Step 3: Push, and see what builds
• Step 4: Build the API from the repository root
• Step 5: Change the shared package

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

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