- packages in workspaces can be used as dependencies without compilation (node's type stripping doesn't support this)
- a good permissions model for limiting access to system fs, net, etc.
- native WebGPU support (including building a windowed app without a web view)
- desktop gui builds that allow using Chromium embedded or WebView
- built-in linter, benchmark, coverage, etc.
Node does support this! Although it may depend on exactly you link the packages within a workspace — I use `pnpm` and it Just Works™. Because NodeJS looks at the resolved symlink to decide whether a project is in `node_modules` or not, if the symlink resolves to a package in the workspace, then NodeJS will do type stripping as normal.
In fairness, the documentation is very unspecific about this, so I just had to try it out and see what happens, but it does work.
I think NodeJS also has coverage these days, although I could be wrong there.
Glad if it's working now regardless though, I also see some experimental support for coverage in the docs now.
I do wish some of this stuff would be documented better. I find Node's documentation to be some of the worst for never being able to answer the specific question I have when I'm reading it — IIRC I was also unsure whether the type stripping thing would work for a monorepo, and the closest confirmation I could find online was a comment in a PR somewhere that implied it ought to work, but nothing more specific.