Experimenting with a monorepo using Rush.js

Expected outcome

Each package should have the minimum boilerplate for:

• least number of packaging manifest (i.e. only a bili.config.js, or just.config.js)
• smallest package.json contents as possible
• package publish step common for all packages
• tests at the same place (e.g. in src/__tests__/), regardless if it's written in JavaScript, ECMAScript 6+, TypeScript.

Objective

• Streamline how we publish things so we can import them consistently in many runtime environments (no copy pasta, just import in package.json, require/import in code, use)
• Harmonize way of packaging, maintenance, with less boilerplate
• So other team members will quickly see what's really needed to create new modules

Desired features

• Easy to spot or get feedback when missing dependency between packages
• Can depend between packages

Trying it out

All examples below expects you first have @microsoft/rush installed globally, refer to the docs.

For Continuous integration mode, refer to .gitlab-ci.yml.

Run with debugging

export CI_SERVER="yes-capn" # Assuming GitLab or other CI would have such variable set in CI mode.
export DEBUG="*,-babel,-agentkeepalive,-fetch-retry"
rush update
rush build