Where the frontend lives

A step of the Cloud application tree on Gradus, in the Frontend area: Second app, UI, browser tests.

Decide whether the frontend is a workspace in this repository or a repository of its own, and write it down. The second answer is where cross-repository knowledge enters.

Usually comes after: Data access layer & seed data.

Leads to: A workspace in the same repository, A second repository, Choose a frontend approach.

Prompt for your AI assistant

Read docs/index.md and everything under docs/product and docs/decisions. Help me decide where this product's frontend should live: a workspace in this repository or a second repository. Compare the two for a single developer with an AI assistant: shared tooling and one CI against independent deploys and a knowledge base per repository. Recommend one and why, then write the next docs/decisions record for the repository layout with context, options, decision and consequences. Create nothing yet.

This is https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/choose-repo-layout as plain HTML. In a browser the page also lets you mark the step forged and copy a message for your AI assistant.