Beyond the Docs: The Hidden Challenges of Nx to Turborepo Migration

Migrating from Nx to Turborepo: A Real-World Guide for Next.js 15 Monorepos are a double-edged sword. While they promise unified tooling, the abstraction layers can eventually become a bottleneck. Our team recently reached that breaking point with Nx. While Nx is a powerhouse, the "Nx way" of doing things—custom executors, hidden build logic, and complex caching—began to feel like a black box that hindered our team’s autonomy. We decided to migrate to Turborepo for a simpler mental model: a task runner that stays out of the way. In this guide, I’ll walk you through our exact migration path for a Next.js 15 / React 19 stack, including the "nightmare" Jest configurations and SVG issues that the official docs don't warn you about. Why We Left Nx Our setup for our core apps was suffering from: Single repository complexity: All apps lived in one repo, making it hard to manage independent deployments. Tight Coupling: A change in a shared library triggered unnecessary builds across the entire