Maintaining a Monorepo: Strategies for Managing Dependencies and Updating Packages.
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Maintaining a monorepo poses a significant challenge in the long term, particularly when it comes to keeping packages up-to-date. With a large number of packages in our monorepo in play (some is updated less frequently than others) and the fast-paced nature of the JavaScript ecosystem, some packages may be outdated easily. This can result in two major issues: firstly, the less frequently updated packages may contain outdated dependencies with known vulnerabilities, and secondly, updating these dependencies can prove to be a difficult task when we need to work on a package that relies on them.