Setting Up a tRPC Monorepo
Configure a monorepo workspace for your tRPC project, separating backend, frontend, and shared types.
What is a Monorepo?
Welcome to setting up a tRPC project in a monorepo! But what exactly is a monorepo?
- A monorepo is a single repository containing multiple distinct projects.
- Unlike a polyrepo (multiple repos for multiple projects), everything lives together.
- Think of it as a big folder holding many smaller, related projects.
It's a powerful way to manage complex applications.
Why Monorepos for tRPC?
Monorepos offer unique advantages when working with tRPC:
- Shared Types: Easily share TypeScript types between your frontend and backend.
- Atomic Commits: Changes to the API and its consuming client can be committed together.
- Simplified Refactoring: Rename a type in one place, and your editor updates everywhere.
- Consistent Tooling: Share configurations for linters, formatters, and build tools.
This approach makes end-to-end type safety even more robust.
All lessons in this course
- Setting Up a tRPC Monorepo
- Code Sharing and Reusability
- Extending tRPC Functionality
- Versioning and Publishing Shared tRPC Packages