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Build & Setup

Not language theory — actual project setup. Monorepos, deploy pipelines, CI, Docker, dev tooling: the boring-but-load-bearing decisions made once at the start of a real product, walked through in the order they actually happened, including where the toolchain pushed back.

Started August 25, 2026

Build & Setup

Build & Setup

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Real project scaffolding, step by step — the setup decisions and tooling that make a codebase boring to work in, in the best way.

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Monorepo Foundations

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Structuring a codebase before there's a product in it.

  1. Building a Production-Ready Turborepo Monorepo: Next.js + ExpressA step-by-step walkthrough of setting up a Next.js + Express monorepo with shared types, Docker, and CI wired in from day one — including the two places the toolchain fought back.