Moving to a monorepo without stopping the world
How to fold several small repositories into one Turborepo one app at a time, with deploys carrying on as normal throughout.
By Josef Benassi · 12 Nov 2026 · 1 minute read
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- Deploys keep working while each app moves across.
- Shared code lives in one package, with one version.
- Every app keeps its own Vercel project and domain.
The best migration is the one nobody notices until you tell them it has finished.
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