How to build a convenient typescript full-stack monorepo

Hi, my name is Herman. Over the years I have seen many teams set up a full-stack monorepo, get it working, and then spend the rest of the project patching rough edges, adding hacks, or delaying improvements because they turn out to be too painful to make. After enough of that, the conclusion is often simple: a monorepo is not worth it. I do not think the monorepo itself is usually the problem. More often, the problem is a setup that was put together quickly and never made convenient for day-to-day work. In this article, I want to show the approach I use to keep a full-stack monorepo smooth, practical, and close to normal application development. I am writing this for engineers who want one repository for client, api, and shared typescript code, but do not want the monorepo to complicate day-to-day development. I will use my own repository as the example, not as a universal template, but as a concrete demonstration of decisions and tradeoffs. Why I choose a monorepo for full-stack work