JS monorepos
Using a monorepo architecture to build your Node.js and web application with best-practice from development to production. Monorepos group multiple related projects inside one Git repository. This organisation simplify the management of a large project splited into multiple components. Large projects including React and Next.js use monorepos.
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JS monorepos in prod 1: project initialization
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: Git, GitOps, JavaScript, Monorepo, Node.js, Release and features
Every project journey begins with the step of initialization. When your overall project is composed of multiple projects, it is tempting to create one Git repository per project. In Node.js, a project…
By David WORMS
Jan 5, 2021
JS monorepos in prod 2: project versioning and publishing
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: CI/CD, Git, GitOps, JavaScript, Monorepo, Node.js, Release and features, Unit tests
One great advantage of a monorepo is to maintain coherent versions between packages and to automatize the version creation and the publication of packages. This article covers the versioning and…
By David WORMS
Jan 11, 2021
JS monorepos in prod 4: unit testing with Mocha and Should.js
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: Automation, CI/CD, Git, GitOps, Monorepo, Node.js, Unit tests
Unit testing is essential for every long-term project and allows you to pull down functionalities of your code into isolated testable units. Indeed the main goal of a unit test is to verify if an…
By David WORMS
Feb 25, 2021
JS monorepos in prod 3: commit enforcement and changelog generation
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: CI/CD, Git, JavaScript, Monorepo, Node.js, Release and features, Unit tests
Conventional Commits introduces a structured format for commit messages. It standardizes the messages among all the contributors. This makes them more readable and easy to automate. It simplifies the…
By David WORMS
Feb 2, 2021
JS monorepos in prod 5: merging Git repositories and preserve commit history
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Node.js | Tags: Bash, DevOps, Packaging, Git, GitHub, GitOps, JavaScript, Monorepo
At Adaltas, we maintain several open-source Node.js projects organized as Git monorepos and published on NPM. We shared our experience to work with Lerna monorepos in a set of articles: Part…
May 21, 2021
JS monorepos in prod 6: CI/CD, continuous integration and deployment with Travis CI
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: CI/CD, Monorepo, Node.js, Unit tests
Implementing continuous integration CI and continuous deployment (CD) on a monorepo is quite complex due to the diversity of multiple responsibilities between developers and the need to coordinate…
By David WORMS
Dec 6, 2021
JS monorepos in prod 7: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment with GitHub Actions
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: CI/CD, Monorepo, Node.js, Unit tests
The value of CI/CD lies in the ability to control and coordinate changes and feature addition in multiple, iterative releases while simultaneously having multiple services being actively developed in…
Apr 6, 2022
