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Turborepo 1.3

Turborepo 1.3

Thursday, June 23rd, 2022

Greg Soltis
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Nathan Hammond
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Tom Knickman
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Jared Palmer
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Jared Palmer
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Gaspar Garcia
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Becca Z.
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With Turborepo 1.3 we are bringing improved caching and flexibility which includes:

Update today by running npm install turbo@latest.

Pipeline inputs

In addition to environment variables, dependencies, and pipeline configurations, turbo will consider all non-gitignored files in package folder when calculating each package.json script's hash fingerprint (the key that turbo uses to index its cache and to determine if a script needs to be re-executed). With Turborepo 1.3+, you can now specify globs of inputs in your turbo.json pipeline to control which files are relevant for a particular script for caching. This means that you can now express the following in turbo.json

  • Ignore changes to all markdown files in a package or app's folder.
  • Don't bother rebuilding an app if only its test files have changed.
  • Only re-run tests if either source files or test files have been changed in a package or folder.
  • and more.

Let's walk through a concrete example: imagine we have a monorepo with a Next.js application for a documentation website in ./apps/docs-site, some packages, and some markdown files in the root of the monorepo in a ./docs folder.

Example monorepo
.
├── docs/
│   ├── api-reference.md
│   ├── getting-started.md
│   └── intro.md
├── apps/
│   ├── docs-site/
│   │   ├── components/
│   │   ├── pages/
│   │   │   └── [slug].js
│   │   ├── README.md
│   │   └── package.json
│   └── web-site/
│       ├── pages/
│       ├── README.md
│       └── package.json
├── packages/
│   ├── configs/
│   └── ui/
├── package.json
└── turbo.json

Let's assume that the Next.js docs-site renders the markdown files from the ./docs folder. We can now set up the build script in the app's package.json to use inputs in turbo.json to better specify exactly which files are relevant (and which should impact caching) as follows:

./turbo.json
{
  "$schema": "https://turbo.build/schema.json",
  "pipeline": {
    // ... omitted for brevity
    "build": {
      "dependsOn": ["^build"],
      "outputs": [".next/**", "!.next/cache/**", "dist/**"]
    },
    "docs#build": {
      "dependsOn": ["^build"],
      "outputs": [".next/**", "!.next/cache/**"],
      // Define set of relevant globs which impact caching of docs site
      // builds
      "inputs": [
        "../../docs/**/*.md",
        "pages/**",
        "components/**",
        "package.json"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Note: Like outputs, inputs are defined relative to the related package.json , but they can be outside of a given folder (e.g. ../../docs/**).

Run and cache scripts from the root of your monorepo

As of 1.3, turbo can now run and cache scripts from the package.json file at the root of the monorepo, which will help significantly when migrating to Turborepo.

To set this up, specify a root script in your pipeline configuration in your turbo.json using the form "//#<script>": {...}. The // tells turbo that the script is relative to the root of the monorepo and not each workspace package.

There are 2 important things to note about root scripts and execution scope:

  • If you already have "build": {...} in your pipeline, but want to include the build script defined in the monorepo's root package.json file when running turbo run build, you may opt the root into the execution's scope by also including "//#build": {...} in your configuration as well.
  • Conversely, you do not need to define a generic "my-script": {...} entry if all you need is "//#my-script": {...}.

A sample pipeline that defines the root script check-examples and opts the root into test might look like:

./package.json
{
  "name": "my-turborepo",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo 'test!'",
    "check-examples": "./check-examples.sh"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "turbo": "latest"
  }
}
./turbo.json
{
  "$schema": "https://turbo.build/schema.json",
  "pipeline": {
    "build": {
      "dependsOn": ["^build"]
    },
    "test": {
      "dependsOn": ["^build"],
      "outputs": []
    },
    // This will cause the "test" script from all workspace package.json's
    // AND the root package.json to be included when "turbo run test" is run
    "//#test": {
      "dependsOn": [],
      "outputs": []
    },
    // This will cause the "check-examples" script in the root package.json
    // to be run when "turbo run check-examples" is run. Since a general
    // "check-examples" script is not defined in the pipeline, only the root
    // package.json's "check-examples" script will be included
    // when "turbo run check-examples" is run
    "//#check-examples": {
      "dependsOn": [],
      "outputs": [],
      "inputs": [
        "examples/**/*.ts",
        "examples/**/*.tsx",
        "examples/**/*.json",
        "examples/**/*.js",
        "examples/**/*.yaml",
        "cli/**/*.ts",
        "./scripts/run-example.sh"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Note: We suggest specifying inputs whenever declaring a root task in your pipeline to improve caching.

New CI/CD Recipes

We added recipes for using Turborepo and Remote Caching with:

If there are other recipes you would like to see here please let us know by opening up a GitHub Discussion (opens in a new tab).

Other Bug Fixes and Improvements

  • Improved git operations and hashing
  • Better cycle detection in dependency graph analysis
  • Added support for Windows ARM 64-bit architectures
  • Improved Remote Cache error logging
  • Added Storybook to the Design System example

Community

Since releasing Turborepo v1.2 in early April, we've seen incredible adoption and community growth:

Turborepo is the result of the combined work of over 136 contributors including our core team.

This release was brought to you by the contributions of: @gsoltis, @nathanhammond, @tknickman, @jaredpalmer, @zvictor, @ObliviousHarmony, @O4epegb, @rafaeltab, @mcmontseny, @bertspaan, @Jastor11, and @enBonnet

Thank you for your continued support, feedback, and collaboration with us to make Turborepo your build tool of choice.