Re:Evolve your go workspace to a real monorepo
by elmazout on Friday August 23, 2024 @03:02PM
(#41332012)
Hi there,
I've been working sporadically over the last six months on a go monorepo tool (0 config it just use go workspace and go convention). It’s basically like TurboRepo but without the task runner. The tool builds a dependency graph between packages, allowing you to do things similar to what you can do in TurboRepo, like "only test the packages and the packages that depend on them, compared to the main branch," or "only install dependencies for Package A and its dependencies," etc. I use native go tool to get dependencies and create dependency graph between the package.Nothing crazy but I feel it could be useful.
Like, go already has test caching (so "only test stuff that changed" shouldn't be necessary, that should just happen), and code formatting and such is already quite fast...
Overall, I feel like having another tool which parses my go source code is going to be slower than writing a Makefile to wrap:
go list -f '{{.Dir}}' -m | xargs -L1 go test ./...
which is all this tool doing really.
Also, hilariously, the repo isn't go fmt'd [0], despite being a tool to go fmt your repo. That's really funny, but I don't think the go community is ready for that level of humor yet, maybe one day.
Re:Evolve your go workspace to a real monorepo
by elmazout on Monday August 26, 2024 @12:30PM
(#41358886)
True, but they are so much complex (and much more powerful). This is more an equivalent to turborepo, minimal config and integrate directly with the language.
Re:Evolve your go workspace to a real monorepo
by elmazout on Monday August 26, 2024 @12:30PM
(#41358876)
I agree, it can be done with a makefile, just except the dependency based runner, if you have module A depending on B, you want to test A and B, this is what a tool like bazel would solve, as well as monogo.
I've been working sporadically over the last six months on a go monorepo tool (0 config it just use go workspace and go convention). It’s basically like TurboRepo but without the task runner. The tool builds a dependency graph between packages, allowing you to do things similar to what you can do in TurboRepo, like "only test the packages and the packages that depend on them, compared to the main branch," or "only install dependencies for Package A and its dependencies," etc. I use native go tool to get dependencies and create dependency graph between the package.Nothing crazy but I feel it could be useful.
Like, go already has test caching (so "only test stuff that changed" shouldn't be necessary, that should just happen), and code formatting and such is already quite fast...
Overall, I feel like having another tool which parses my go source code is going to be slower than writing a Makefile to wrap:
which is all this tool doing really.Also, hilariously, the repo isn't go fmt'd [0], despite being a tool to go fmt your repo. That's really funny, but I don't think the go community is ready for that level of humor yet, maybe one day.
[0]: https://github.com/nicolasgere/monogo/blob/2fb0b4985893e3397...
I am a Gopher, and ironically, I didn't quite understand what this means. Would you care to elaborate?