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> monorepo lets you magically do atomic API migrations I'd argue that there are many more APIs which just don't go over network. With monorepo you can do cross

by rfoo 5y ago

> monorepo lets you magically do atomic API migrations I'd argue that there are many more APIs which just don't go over network. With monorepo you can do cross-component refactor very easily, this is especially handy when you are working on a widely-used library. Imagine that you are working on your language's standard library and you want to fix a small API mis-design.

lmm 5y ago
I think having a single repo for a library that's versioned and released as a single component makes a lot of sense, but combining separate services that are deployed separately into a single repository is not a good idea. The latter is what people generally mean by "monorepo" AFAICS.
- rfoo 5y ago
  What I mean is you put your library and all services using it in a single repo.
  - lmm 5y ago
    Well, you said language standard library, so that would mean keeping every program written in that language in a single repo, which seems obviously absurd.