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I'd push back against "serious JS codebase", there.

Maybe it's just me but a monorepo with 180 packages sounds like a hole you've dug yourself into and you're propping yourself up with yarn.

I certainly don't think that anyone who keeps their packages separate (you could do that even within a monorepo, surely) has a "non-serious" codebase.

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Well yarn exists for this purpose so I guess I’m not the only one doing this. And if the alternative involves having to manage independent versioning of 180 packages and their inter-dependencies then no thanks.

I’m not saying the situation is completely perfect (yarn v2 had its rough edges in the beginning for example), but it’s not too bad either. This monorepo is the best organized codebase of this size and diversity I’ve ever seen.

Feel free to explain alternative methods to manage 180 packages with 7 developers while sleeping at night.

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