“Why would I want to set up a component library on my own?”. Well, we all have been to this point ... once our application grows, things tend to get complex and overwhelming. Despite the best intentions components start to have inconsistencies. Things get hard to maintain, and development speed decreases…

So you’ve got your shiny React app up and running and want to deploy it to production using Docker? Then we’ve got you covered! In this short guide, you’ll see how you can create a optimized Docker image to host your project.

In this post I will show you some of the benefits of using a multi-package repository (“a monorepo”) to structure your large scale frontend projects. I will guide you through a simple example and show you some best practices. We will use Javascript and React in this project, still concepts should be applicable to other project types as well.