How much to share in a monorepo when building common features for web and mobile

This article is an English translation of the original Japanese article. When I added an Expo app to an existing Next.js web service, I initially wanted to share as much code as possible. In practice, types and business rules share well, while UI and runtime dependencies are easier to manage separately. SquadNote uses pnpm workspace and Turborepo, composed of apps/web , apps/mobile , and packages/* . Current split apps/ web/ Next.js, Cloudflare Workers mobile/ Expo, React Native packages/ api/ tRPC and Zod shared parts db/ Drizzle schema design-tokens/ Root workspace configuration is simple: packages : - " apps/*" - " packages/*" turbo.json manages only build and typecheck dependencies. Rather than adding custom build steps for sharing, I started with a structure where each package exports TypeScript sources. What I share The biggest benefit came from tRPC types. Mobile type-imports the web AppRouter , using the same input and output. import type { AppRouter } from " ../../apps/web/src/server/api/root " ; export const api = createTRPCReact < AppRouter > (); I also separated colors, spacing, and font sizes into @squadnote/design-tokens . export { colors } from " ./colors " ; export { spacing } from " ./spacing " ; export { radius } from " ./radius " ; Business rules like waitlists become sharing candidates as pure functions with no dependency on React or DB. They are easy to test, and results do not diverge between web and mobile. What I do not share I do not share screen components. Next.js DOM and React Native View have different interactions, accessibility, and layout constraints, even when they look similar. Authentication storage also differs: Web: NextAuth cookie session Mobile: SecureStore Bearer JWT Both reach the same API, but sharing the login screen and token storage would require handling each environment's concerns with many branches. Routing also has separate implementations for Next.js App Router and Expo Router. What I share is the meaning of organiza