Design Patterns · Senior · Question 71 of 75

What is a key trade-off of a monorepo compared to many repositories?

✓Correct answer: Atomic cross-package changes and shared tooling, at the cost of needing build caching, ownership rules and scalable CI
2Monorepos can't use different languages
3Monorepos forbid independent deployment

Explanation

Tools like Nx and Turborepo add affected-only builds and caching; without them monorepo CI slows down.

Further reading

monorepo.tools ↗

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