This is not meant as a prescriptive recommendation, but is rather meant as an anecdotal exposition, in the hope that it might helps other teams make i

Monorepo - Our experience

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This is not meant as a prescriptive recommendation, but is rather meant as an anecdotal exposition, in the hope that it might helps other teams make informed decisions.

Unlike most forks in the road, we've travelled both ones. So first I will describe the history that lead up to the change, outlining how we've already experienced the alternative non-monorepo setup too in a similar context, and thus are now well positioned to compare apples to apples.

Ente began its life half a decade ago. It was a meant as a end-to-end encrypted platform for storing all of Vishnu's personal data, but two things happened: Vishnu realized it was not just him that needed such a thing to exist, and he realized it was going to be a lot of work to build his vision.

So he became a we, and instead of tackling all personal data, the focus was shifted to a singular aspect of it, Ente Photos, to get the spaceship off the ground. To an external observer what looks like a photos app (and that indeed is our concrete current goal) is driven by an underlying vision of the human right to the privacy of all forms of personal data.

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