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Turborepo

High-performance monorepos with clever build caching.

What is Turborepo?

Turborepo makes large monorepos fast by caching builds and tests intelligently and only re-running what has actually changed. It understands the dependencies between your packages and runs independent tasks in parallel, instead of plodding through them one after another. The clever part is the shared remote cache. What a colleague or CI has already built, everyone else downloads ready-made instead of producing it again. That keeps even a project with many packages pleasantly quick.

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How we use it

In monorepos with several apps and shared packages, Turborepo is our tool for keeping wait times small. Locally and in CI we share the same remote cache, so an unchanged part is never built twice. Especially as your project grows, that is the difference between fluid work and endless waiting for green pipelines.

json
{
  "tasks": {
    "build": {
      "dependsOn": ["^build"],
      "outputs": ["dist/**"]
    },
    "test": {
      "dependsOn": ["build"]
    }
  }
}
a build task with declared outputs

Good to know

The cache is only as good as your tasks declare their inputs and outputs. Forget an input file in the config and Turborepo happily serves a stale result from cache while you chase a phantom bug.

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