dev experience tooling
turbo, nx, cursed monorepo yaml
Jest's default worker isolation gives each test file a fresh process.env. Vitest defaults to pool: 'threads', which SHARES process.env across all test files in the same worker thread. Tests that do process.env.FOO = 'bar' leak into other tests — sometimes producing opposite pass/fail depending on file alphabetical order. Maddening to debug. Fix: set pool: 'forks' in vitest.config.ts to restore Jest's isolation. Forks are 15% slower on typical suites but safe for env-mutation patterns.
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