Scaffold a Turborepo Monorepo with Claude
Turborepo is excellent once it's set up, but the initial configuration — workspace declarations, turbo.json pipelines, shared tsconfig packages, internal package wiring — takes hours to get right from scratch. Claude does it in minutes.
Scaffold a Turborepo monorepo with:
- apps/web: Next.js 14 app
- apps/api: Fastify API
- packages/ui: shared React component library (built with tsup)
- packages/tsconfig: shared TypeScript configs
Set up turbo.json with build, test, dev, and lint pipelines.
Configure internal package dependencies so both apps can import from @repo/ui.
Claude generates the correct package.json workspace declarations, proper tsup or tsc build configs for each package, and path alias setups so TypeScript resolves internal imports correctly in both dev and production builds.
# Add a new package to an existing repo
Add a packages/email package to our existing Turborepo using React Email.
Wire up the dependency so both apps/web and apps/api can import
from @repo/email. Update turbo.json to include email in the build pipeline.
# With testing setup
Add Vitest to the monorepo with a shared config in packages/vitest-config.
Each app and package should be able to extend from @repo/vitest-config
and run tests with `turbo run test`.
Turborepo boilerplate is tedious and finicky — let Claude generate it while you focus on actual product code.
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Set up Claude Code as an automated reviewer in your CI pipeline — on every pull request, it reads the diff, checks for bugs, security issues, missing tests, and convention violations, then posts its findings as a PR comment. Your human reviewers get a head start because the obvious issues are already flagged before they look.
Before deploying, tell Claude to read your project — migrations, environment variables, queue workers, scheduled tasks, caching, third-party integrations — and generate a deployment checklist that's specific to your app. Not a generic "did you run migrations?" list, but one that knows YOUR infrastructure and catches the things YOUR deploy can break.
Instead of writing a README from memory or copying a template, tell Claude to read your project and generate one that's actually accurate — real setup instructions from your config, real architecture from your directory structure, real API examples from your routes, and real prerequisites from your dependency files.