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            "value": "\n          <p>I listened to a podcast episode recently which talked about monorepos - i.e. code repositories that contain multiple project codebases rather than a single repository for each codebase - and this got me thinking about whether I should be using these more.<\/p>\n\n<p>It's something that I've been trialling recently in my <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/opdavies\/docker-examples\">Docker examples<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OliverDaviesLtd\/docker-images\">Docker images<\/a> repositories, where one repository contains and builds multiple Docker images.<\/p>\n\n<p>I'm not suggesting that I put all of my client projects into one repository, but at least combining the different parts of the same project into the same repository.<\/p>\n\n<p>For example, I'm working for one client on their current Drupal 7 websites whilst developing the new Drupal 9 versions, which are currently in two separate repositories. I'm also developing an embeddable Vue.js application as part of the Drupal 9 website, and using Fractal as a component library. These are also in their own repositories.<\/p>\n\n<p>Using a monorepo approach, all of these projects would be in the same repository.<\/p>\n\n<p>I can see advantages to being able to see cross-project changes in the same place - such as an API change in Drupal that needs a update to be made in Vue.js, or vice-versa - rather than needing to look at separate repositories. This could also make versioning easier as everything will be stored and tagged inside the same repository.<\/p>\n\n<p>Each project has it's own CI pipeline, so it would require some changes where I set a specific pipeline to run only when a directory is changed.<\/p>\n\n<p>I see how deployments may be tricker if I need to push an update within a directory to another Git repository, which makes me wonder if I'll need to look into using subtree splits to create separate deployment repositories - similar to how the Symfony project has one main repository and then each component split into its own repository.<\/p>\n\n<p>I'll keep trialling it in my open-source projects and maybe test it with some client projects, but if you have experience with monorepos that you'd like to share, then please reply to this email - I'd love to hear about it.<\/p>\n\n        ",
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