Optimizing Microfrontends with Turborepo

🧐 Why Turborepo?

Managing multiple microfrontends within a monorepo can be challenging. Turborepo offers a powerful solution to optimize workflows, run tasks in parallel, and cache results for faster builds.

Parallel Tasks: Run builds and tests across multiple microfrontends simultaneously.

Intelligent Caching: Save time by reusing outputs from previous runs.

Scalable: Manage as many microfrontends as needed, all within a single monorepo. If you're working with multiple apps, Turborepo is a game-changer for streamlining your workflows.

Here's how you can set up and use Turborepo in your project:

🔧 1. Creating a Turborepo Project

1.1 Create a New Turborepo Project:

Instead of manually setting up Turborepo, you can use the following command to quickly scaffold a new Turborepo:

npx create-turbo@latest

1.2 Place your microfrontends inside the apps directory:

apps/
 ├── mfe1/
 ├── mfe2/
 └── mfe3/
package.json
turbo.json

📄 2. Important Configuration Files

package.json defines your scripts, dependencies, and workspace structure

turbo.json configures how tasks are run across your monorepo. It also includes caching settings to speed up subsequent runs.

⚡ 3. Running Turborepo Commands

Install dependencies:

npm i 

Build all apps and packages:

npm run build 

Start the development environment:

npm run dev 

Run any of these commands once, and Turborepo will use its smart caching to speed up subsequent builds.

Give it a try in your next project and experience the efficiency firsthand! 😍😍