Glossary

Application

The Workspaces of our monorepo that we will deploy. Applications are likely to consume other packages within our monorepo to take advantage of code reuse.

Atomic

A characteristic of a system where changes are "all or nothing". An "atomic" system can never end up in a "halfway" state. If a change to the system is started, it either fully completes or returns to the starting state.

Monorepo

See the Understanding Monorepos page. This is the opposite of a polyrepo.

Package

A self-contained code module in a monorepo to be used in other packages and applications. We use Workspaces to define where packages exist in our monorepo.

Polyrepo

Creating many different code repositories for your code. This is the opposite of a monorepo.

Workspace

A section of the repository that is meant to be its own self-contained module or application. A Workspace may depend on other Workspaces as dependencies but can be thought of as its own mini "project" in your repo.