Centralized Assets Management in TurboRepo

Hey everyone! This is my first blog post on Dev.to, and I'm super excited to share something that helped me a lot while working with TurboRepo. I ran into a common problem, solved it in a clean way, and thought — why not write about it? Hope it helps you too. Feedback is always welcome! Let’s face it — juggling images and icons across multiple apps in a TurboRepo can feel like untangling a mess of earphones.You copy assets from one app to another… forget where you saved a particular icon… or worse, end up with five versions of the same logo. It’s chaotic. It’s inefficient. And it doesn’t have to be this way. If you’re already using TurboRepo, you know how powerful modular, scalable app development can be. But what if you could take it a step further and centralize all your static assets — icons, images, logos — into one place and share them effortlessly across your entire monorepo? In this blog, I’ll walk you through a clean and effective way to manage shared assets in a TurboRepo setup.No more duplication. No more broken image paths. Just one unified source of truth for your visuals. Instead of duplicating assets across apps, treat them like shared components or utilities. Let’s create a shared package called @repo/assets to hold all icons and images.

Apr 15, 2025 - 15:31

Centralized Assets Management in TurboRepo

Hey everyone!
This is my first blog post on Dev.to, and I'm super excited to share something that helped me a lot while working with TurboRepo. I ran into a common problem, solved it in a clean way, and thought — why not write about it?
Hope it helps you too. Feedback is always welcome!

Let’s face it — juggling images and icons across multiple apps in a TurboRepo can feel like untangling a mess of earphones.You copy assets from one app to another… forget where you saved a particular icon… or worse, end up with five versions of the same logo.

It’s chaotic. It’s inefficient. And it doesn’t have to be this way.

If you’re already using TurboRepo, you know how powerful modular, scalable app development can be. But what if you could take it a step further and centralize all your static assets — icons, images, logos — into one place and share them effortlessly across your entire monorepo?

In this blog, I’ll walk you through a clean and effective way to manage shared assets in a TurboRepo setup.No more duplication. No more broken image paths. Just one unified source of truth for your visuals.

Instead of duplicating assets across apps, treat them like shared components or utilities.

Let’s create a shared package called @repo/assets to hold all icons and images.