While many tools support multipackage development in the node.js world, npm 7 adds direct support with the addition of npm workspaces. Managing related packages together facilitates development, allowing you, for example, to store multiple related libraries in a single repo. With npm workspaces, once you add a configuration in a top-level package.json file to refer to one or more nested package.json files, commands like npm install work across multiple packages, symlinking the dependent source packages into the root node_modules directory. Other npm commands are also now workspace aware, allowing you, for example, to execute npm run and npm test commands across multiple packages with a single command. Having that flexibility out of the box decreases the need for some teams to reach for another package manager.
