Design Patterns · Senior · Question 60 of 75

Why does the Acyclic Dependencies Principle matter in a monorepo?

✓Correct answer: Cycles between packages prevent independent builds, releases and reasoning; the dependency graph must be a DAG
2Cycles are only a style issue
3Bundlers can't handle any imports

Explanation

Break cycles by extracting a shared module or inverting a dependency through an interface.

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