Talking MonoRepos with Manfred Steyer on Real Talk Javascript #99

Manfred Steyer talks with John, Ward, and Dan about what enterprise means these days, what some of the pitfalls of monorepos are, what kind of special tooling you might need, how to track changes and use version control, how to link multiple repos, and who monorepos are for.

Talking MonoRepos

const podcast = { 
  episode: 99,
  title: 'So You Wanna Use MonoRepos and Micro FrontEnds in Your Enterprise Architecture?',
  topics: [ 
    'monorepo', 'micro frontend',
  ],
  guest: 'Manfred Steyer'
  hosts: [
    'Dan Wahlin', 'John Papa', 'Ward Bell'
  ]
};

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Manfred Steyer @ManfredSteyer

Brought to you by

• ag-Grid

• Raygun

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Resources:

• Manfred's angular workshops
• VS Code
• Visual Studio Live Share
• What is a monorepo?
• Nx tools
• Selecting Monorepo tools
• .NET dotnet
• Design Systems by Emma Bostian
• Azure Static Web Apps
• Micro Frontend
• Manfred Steyer video on Micro Frontend
• Webpack 5 and Module Federation
• Conway’s law: in brief, s/w boundaries tend to mirror the development team boundaries
• Micro Frontends with Webpack Module Federation and Angular
• Architecture with Angular and Nx Monorepos
• eBook about Enterprise Angular
• Angular Architecture Workshop

Timejumps

• 01:12 Guest introductions
• 04:39 What does enterprise mean to you?
• 07:00 What are the pitfalls of mono repos?
• 11:25 Why do I need special tooling?
• 13:37 Sponsor: Raygun
• 14:12 Tracking changes and version control
• 30:22 Micro Front End concepts
• 34:32 How do you link together multiple repos?
• 36:00 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 37:03 Who is monorepo for?
• 44:28 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.