Developer Guide

Welcome to the CGSE developer guide! An in-depth reference on how to contribute to the CGSE.

First thing to know is that this repository is actually a monorepo, meaning it contains a bunch of related but self-standing packages with a minimum of interdependencies. A monorepo can grow quite big and can contain a lot of packages that even different groups are working on. What they have in common is that they use the same guidelines and have the same or a very similar development workflow.

Don't confuse a monorepo with a monolith or a monolithic architecture. While a monorepo holds multiple related but more-or-less independent projects, a monolith is a traditional software application or architecture which is an often huge, self-contained and independent unit of code that is highly coupled and difficult to maintain.

Don't confuse a monorepo with microservices either. A microservice architecture contains units that run independently and are developed, scaled and deployed without affecting the other units or services. You can set up a monorepo containing all of your microservices with ease, one does not need the other, but they can perfectly go together.