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[Question] When is lerna appropriate for monorepo management?

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Hi @evocateur…I’m trying out lerna. You mentioned in passing here, here, here, here that there are cases where you don’t recommend it.

Our use case is more general/common - our monorepo has an express server, angular client, and shared libraries (using file:../shared to link them). We use pnpm to avoid npm’s space/time waste.

I don’t publish to npm… I don’t even have an npm account. However I do deploy the dist directory to our VPS.

In this very common use case, is lerna overkill?

(Not trolling you, lerna is really cool, I’m just unsure about this use case. The docs weren’t clear.)

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lonix1commented, Apr 4, 2019

@blieque No the testing trouble was with nx (testing config is buggy and convoluted), which is why we’re gonna swap that out for lerna.

Thanks for your comments, most lerna users seem to use it for OSS / npm-related work, so I needed some from-the-trenches advice for our use case… thanks!

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bliequecommented, Apr 17, 2019

We may well start to publish packages, but I get your point that Lerna isn’t strictly required for a monorepo.

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