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MONOREPO INFRASTRUCTURE WITH PNPM WORKSPACES

Isolated Dockerfiles, workspace filtering, and static export that stays compatible with GitHub Pages.

MONOREPO INFRASTRUCTURE WITH PNPM WORKSPACES

Monorepo Infrastructure

This article describes the migration from a single Next.js app to a pnpm workspace monorepo.

Why separate apps?

  • Frontend stays a static export deployable to GitHub Pages.
  • Backend runs independently on Node.js + json-server for fast mocking.
  • Each app owns its Dockerfile, dependencies and AGENTS.md.

What changed

  • apps/frontend holds the Next.js app with output: "export".
  • apps/backend exposes data/db.json via json-server on port 4000.
  • Root pnpm-workspace.yaml defines packages: ["apps/*"].

API base for the next stage: /api/v1 — routes are designed by a dedicated agent.

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