Why is nteract a monorepo?

The tool for managing the monorepo in nteract is Lerna

nteract follows a monorepo approach, all officially maintained modules are in the same repo.

Pros:

Single lint, build, test and release process.
Easy to coordinate changes across modules.
Single place to report issues.
Easier to setup a development environment.
Tests across modules are ran together which finds bugs that touch multiple modules easier.

Cons:

This is weird! Nobody in open source does this!

React, Meteor, Ember, Babel among others, do this.