Hands-on guide to monorepo development with Nx using React, Express, and shared code
This hands-on course provides a practical introduction to monorepo development using Nx version 22, one of the most powerful tools for managing modern codebases.
What you’ll learn
- Understand what a monorepo is and when to use one.
- Create and configure an Nx workspace from scratch.
- Use Nx generators to scaffold code quickly.
- Create and share libraries across multiple projects.
- Visualize project dependencies with the Nx graph.
Course Content
- Welcome & Setup –> 4 lectures • 17min.
- Nx Basics –> 11 lectures • 1hr 43min.
- Ending –> 2 lectures • 4min.
Requirements
This hands-on course provides a practical introduction to monorepo development using Nx version 22, one of the most powerful tools for managing modern codebases.
If you’ve ever wanted to organize multiple applications in one repository, share code efficiently, reduce duplication, and improve your development workflow, this course is for you.
We’ll start from the ground up by explaining what a monorepo is, why many teams use this approach, and how Nx differs from traditional multi-repository setups.
Then we move straight into practice.
You’ll create a new Nx workspace, generate applications and libraries, explore the project structure, and learn how Nx helps you manage growing projects with speed and consistency.
Throughout the course, we’ll build a real example by creating both a React frontend application and an Express backend API inside the same workspace. You’ll also share TypeScript code between projects, demonstrating one of the biggest advantages of monorepo architecture.
You’ll learn how to use powerful Nx features such as:
- Code generation for apps and libraries
- Intelligent task caching for faster builds
- Dependency graphs for better visibility
- Affected commands to run only what changed
This is a practical course with real examples, not a theory-heavy presentation. You’ll learn by building and working directly with Nx from the first lessons.
By the end of this course, you’ll understand monorepo concepts and feel confident using Nx for frontend, backend, and full-stack projects.
This course is a great fit if you are:
- A developer managing multiple related projects
- A frontend or backend engineer wanting shared code workflows
- A full-stack developer building scalable applications
- Anyone interested in modern developer tooling and productivity
Basic knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js will be helpful.
If you want a clear, beginner-friendly, and hands-on introduction to monorepos with Nx, this course is for you.