I think it's an interesting idea for monorepo version management, but I feel the cases where they're useful are kinda niche. If you're bumping dependencies to latest all the time, then there's almost no worries for out-of-sync deps. I wish pnpm had documented the motive and usecases better though. - ThreadSky

bluwy.me • 31 days ago

I think it's an interesting idea for monorepo version management, but I feel the cases where they're useful are kinda niche. If you're bumping dependencies to latest all the time, then there's almost no worries for out-of-sync deps. I wish pnpm had documented the motive and usecases better though.

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baxuz.bsky.social•31 days ago

It's a great solution for dev deps, and production deps alike.

I have a monorepo with ~10 test apps and 6 packages. Each one of them a number of shared deps including vite, TS, prettier, eslint.

I also want to keep the framework deps in sync.

baxuz.bsky.social•31 days ago

For those cases, I feel like this is a much better solution compared to either dep hoisting or using tools like syncpack.

foldleft.bsky.social•31 days ago

I only realised this a couple of days ago but syncpack can be used to define one or more catalogs via custom types, and auto-update all the consumers via `syncpack update`. I need to write a stack of docs this week and will include this.

bluwy.me•31 days ago

Yeah it can be useful if used sparingly I feel like, e.g. critical ones like vite, prettier you mentioned where bumping may take more effort.

I didn't know of syncpack but it seems like something I'd use instead if I ever face the issue 😅 But great to have more options for sure.

antfu.me•31 days ago

It’s not only about out-of-sync, bumping versions in a single file instead of a dozen of package.json is also better for reviewing and diffing.

If one already uses catalogs in their monorepo, leveraging it to also categorize deps does not introduce a lot trade offs

baxuz.bsky.social•31 days ago

It's less error prone as well. I currently use `npm-check-updates -ui -ws --root` as it's the most reliable way to update deps, but it takes a long-ass time to go over dozens of packages in larger repos.

After that I run `syncpack fix-mismatches` for the obligatory errors.

bluwy.me•31 days ago

I usually use pnpm outdated or renovate for bumping deps and they give an overview of changed dependencies which felt enough for me. I’d sacrifice some review time so my package.json stays readable.

bluwy.me•31 days ago

And it depends on how much catalogs you’re talking of, I think it’s fine in ration for cases where you want it synced, but IIUC you’re suggesting going all in + categorisation.

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