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Etymology edit

From mono- +‎ repo or a blend of monolithic +‎ repo.

Noun edit

monorepo (plural monorepos)

  1. (software engineering) A monolithic repository, where core code and its dependencies are included in the same repository.
    Antonym: multirepo
    • 2021, Florian Rappl, The Art of Micro Frontends, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 40:
      As with central deployments, we can look into two different scenarios here too: either using a monorepo as a code base or starting with individual repositories to have dedicated pipelines.

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