A Practical Guide to React Native Monorepo With Yarn Workspaces
Article Summary
Nazar Sydiaha from Callstack tackles one of React Native's biggest scaling challenges: managing multiple apps and shared packages without losing your mind. His monorepo guide could save your team weeks of dependency hell.
As React Native apps grow into super apps with mobile, web, and shared components, managing separate repositories becomes a nightmare of duplicated code and version mismatches. This practical guide walks through setting up a monorepo with Yarn Workspaces to consolidate everything in one place.
Key Takeaways
- Monorepos eliminate duplicated code and dependency version mismatches across platforms
- Platform-specific extensions (.web.tsx, .native.tsx) enable shared APIs with optimized implementations
- Metro config updates let you watch entire workspace from root
- Shared tsconfig.base.json provides consistent TypeScript settings across all packages
Critical Insight
A properly configured monorepo consolidates mobile, web, and shared packages into one repository with predictable dependency management and reduced CI overhead.
