Devs hand-roll scripts to fake a monorepo across 30+ microservice repos
capajj · x · 2026-10-18
In a thread arguing "2020: monorepos suck; 2026: monorepos are awesome (because of AI)", a developer shares hard-won experience: in organizations with 30+ repos for microservices, the only workable approach was writing a script to check out all repos into one folder and work locally as if it were a monorepo.
The reply confirms the pain: every repo had its own npm package and CI/CD scripts scaffolded from a shared repo, turning maintenance into a mess — "and let's not get started about submodules." The thread captures how AI coding tools are flipping the monorepo calculus.
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