Monorepositories at scale with Nx (Workshop, 1.5-2h)

[ngfelixl]

Felix Lemke

Senior Software Developer at Interfacewerk GmbH

@ngfelixl

Managing monorepositories can be quite complex. With Nrwl/Nx we have got an excellent tool to build a maintainable repository containing multiple applications and libraries sharing a single semver and package.json.

Workshop:

• Get an idea of what NX is and what it can do
• See the advantages and disadvantages of having a monorepo
• The attendees will build a mono-repository with an Nest REST backend, an Angular or React application for one given entity (e.g. fruits, books, heroes) in groups of 2-3 people. If there are enough attendees we can also have more frontend applications, an "admin-frontend" application and a "frontend" application. All in one repository.
• See how we can share code between different parts of our applications (e.g. having a interfaces library which can be used in the frontend, admin-frontend, nest backend)
• See how we can connect micro-frontends with hyperlinks (the office 365 way) and what other possibilities exist
• See how we can reduce CI time by running testing, linting, building scripts only against affected parts of our application and by running them in parallel

For attending the workshop a laptop with pre-installed nodejs@>=12.x, Visual Studio Code and Git + Github accound is recommended. Workshop can be presented in german or in english. For attendees it will be helpful if (at least basic) knowledge in html/css/javascript and one of angular/react/nest/express is given.

[RobinThrift]

Thank you for your proposal, we'd love to host you! We already have a talk planned for March, when would be best for you to hold this workshop?

[ngfelixl]

Awesome, thanks! In April I will be in Munich at the meetup time. What about May?

[RobinThrift]

Sure, sounds good, I'll schedule you for May!