Simple monorepo practice that relates to Monorepos - A Beginner's Guide Udemy course by Robert Donnelly.

Projects (which can be either app or library) are located in packages folder. To launch a project run node packages/${projectName}.

There're next projects:

1. module-a
2. module-b

Initially both modules are not set to be standalone packages, though we can require module-b from module-a via require('../module-b') and run node packages/module-a. It will work and console output will be:

I am module-a
I am module-b

But we can not require modules as standalone packages via require('module-b'). If we try to do so, we'll get an error: Cannot find module 'module-b'.

There are several ways to require a project as a standalone package, but all of them take advantage of Node Modules Resolution Strategy.

If we rename packages folder to node_modules, Node we'll be able to find a project by name. So code require('module-b') will work.

In this case we don't have the prettiest directory structure but it's the simplest way to set up mono repository.