Making Monorepos Breakproof with Anton Stoychev - JSJ 694

About this episode

Steve Edwards discusses modern monorepos with guest Anton Stoychev, focusing on dependency management and tool upgrades.

In this solo-hosted episode, I (Steve Edwards) dive deep into the world of modern monorepos with special guest Anton Stoychev from Yotpo. Anton shares his journey from the early days of PHP and IE6 nightmares to his current work in front-end infrastructure, performance optimization, and developer tooling. We talk about the challenges of managing dependencies, upgrading tools without breaking your codebase, and the evolution of developer experience across teams and companies. Anton also introduces Breakproof, Yotpo’s open-source monorepo template designed to make dependency management and tool upgrades painless—even when working with multiple Node.js versions, runtimes like Bun and Deno, and complex CI environments. If you’ve ever struggled with upgrading Jest, ESLint, or TypeScript in a large monorepo, or you’re curious how to isolate dependencies to keep your codebase maintainable over time, this episode is a must-listen. 🔗 Links & Resources 🔧 Breakproof on GitHub: breakproof.dev 🧠 Yotpo LTD on GitHub: Yotpo Breakproof Base Monorepo 💬 Follow Anton Stoychev: stoychev.dev on BlueSky Become a supporter of this podcast…

People in this episode

Host: Steve Edwards

Guest: Anton Stoychev

Topics covered

• monorepos
• dependency management
• developer experience
• performance optimization
• tool upgrades
• front-end infrastructure

Keywords

• monorepos
• dependency management
• Breakproof
• Yotpo
• developer tooling
• performance optimization
• JavaScript

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yotpo

Products: Breakproof, PHP, IE6, Jest, ESLint, TypeScript

Places: Node.js, Bun, Deno

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