formidable-playbook/docs/infrastructure/single.md

The Formidable Playbook

### Have a single infrastructure

A unified development effort should have a single infrastructure control all
similar projects. Classes of similar projects include React components, Hapi
plugins, Node.js servers, etc.

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There are many different ways of implementing your projects and builds, and
without being too preachy, the goals should be:

* Declare infrastructure (build, test, qa) tasks and dependencies for those
  tasks in a single place.
* Ensure new projects of the same type use that same infrastructure.

This can be accomplished with many separate repositories ("multi-repo") or a
single repository with many internal packages ("monorepo").

Some different technology tools to get you there:

| Tool | Strategy | Example | Notes |
| ---- | ---------| ------- | ----- |
| [`builder`](https://github.com/FormidableLabs/builder)| multi-repo | [`builder-victory-component`](https://github.com/FormidableLabs/builder-victory-component) | Control tasks, configs, dependencies |
| [`multibot`](https://github.com/FormidableLabs/multibot)| multi-repo | | Craft parallel repository code changes |
| [`lerna`](https://github.com/lerna/lerna)| monorepo | [`babel`](https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/master/doc/design/monorepo.md) | Multiple `package.json`, single repo |