What is Essencium?
A scalable, easy-to-maintain and adaptable boilerplate based on Next.js.
Background
The goal of Essencium is effortlessly build a scalable, easy-to-maintain and adaptable frontend. Projects based on
Essencium should receive updates in the simplest way. Therefore, the Essencium library is built as an npm
-package that
can be installed via a package manager like npm
, yarn
or pnpm
. As a consequence, new changes made on the Essencium
library can be rolled-out as a new version and Essencium-based projects can easily update the dependency without copy
and pasting the code manually.
Monorepository
We chose to use a monorepo architecture with the library, types, docs and the application as packages. That allows to
easily develop the library, utilizing Vite and inspect the source code changes of the library via HMR inside the browser
as if it was a single codebase. pnpm
allows us to run certain commands (like build
or
test
) for all packages that have a corresponding command in their package.json
, with keeping the correct dependency order in mind.