Notes

[natew]

Lets make this a bit more focused to start. There are two high level directions, lets do the second:

• ~Make managing lots of github repos easier~
• Make managing lots of small node packages easier

Goal is to be able to go from 0 to published package easy, and make ongoing maintenance easy. It's basically lerna sans mono-repo, maybe even more opinionated.

Goals for v1:

1. Track directories
2. Exec commands easily in all directories
3. Share scripts between all repos easily (and have a default set that uses babel + presets-steelbrain)
4. Be really good at linking stuff together thats tracked by it (lerna-style)

Bonus points:

• See nice status of all repos
• Publishing helpers

[natew]

Problem: you need a way to share scripts, but these scripts should be tied to the version of the package so others can clone/edit stuff.

Idea:

• have a key repoScripts automatically managed in package.json that points to commit SHA for those scripts: natew/reposcripts:a4d67ojs21
• set npm run bootstrap to do npm install repoman && repoman bootstrap which then grabs the package.json and grabs the right reposcripts down
• ... complexity unfolds....

[natew]

Prior science:

• https://github.com/basti1302/repoman
• https://github.com/lerna/lerna

[natew]

Apparently we're not only ones frustrated by this:

• https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/1492
• which points to https://github.com/insin/nwb/blob/master/docs/guides/ReactComponents.md#developing-react-components-and-libraries-with-nwb