Which is the right Monorepo tool?

[goldbergyoni]

Triggering a discussion about Monorepo tools

[goldbergyoni]

Corresponding decision table here

[joebowbeer]

Corrections to table:

• Lerna is maintained; Nrwl, the company behind Nx, took over stewardship of Lerna
• Nx can be used in combination with Lerna/workspace

[goldbergyoni]

Hey @joebowbeer, welcome aboard 🌻

Yes, we should emphasize more that a valid monorepo strategy is a workspace + build-tool (e.g. Nx)

About Lerna - I will update, thanks. Personally, I think that Nx will swallow it but it's not fair to write that it's not maintained

[mikicho]

I had a good experience with Turborepo.

[dionysuzx]

two issues/points of confusion i have: 1) https://github.com/nrwl/nx-recipes/tree/main/pnpm-workspace this example shows that NX can be used with multiple package.json, so i don't think it's fair to argue that it can only have a root package.json (which would increase tight coupling) and 2) how is that NX is locally linking by using typescript and webpack? if you are using pnpm, for example, it is locally linking by means of pnpm workspace, and i believe it would be the same for yarn and npm as well.

thanks for this write up, i just want to make sure the information is accurate here

[goldbergyoni]

@d1onys1us Welcome aboard. Appreciate your feedback!

About the 1st point - Nx encourages this coupling, it doesn't enforce it. If you use the default Node plugin, this is the setup that one gets

About 2nd point - You're right. We should update the wording. Care to do this or shall I?

[aledpardo]

Hi @goldbergyoni, quick update on Lernajs.

The table states that Lerna doesn't support parallelism, but it does support concurrency as read here.

[puneetv05]

Based on simplicity, documentation, and community support, my personal opinion leans towards Nx.
This doesn't mean Turborepo isn't good; it's just a newcomer, and its community is still growing.

Nx (monorepo) + Nest (framework) = ❤️