
Turborepo Has a Free API: Monorepo Builds That Actually Scale
Your monorepo CI takes 45 minutes because it rebuilds everything. Turborepo makes it take 45 seconds. What Is Turborepo? Turborepo is a build system for JavaScript/TypeScript monorepos. It understands your dependency graph, caches everything, and only rebuilds what changed. npx create-turbo@latest The Pipeline // turbo.json { "$schema" : "https://turbo.build/schema.json" , "tasks" : { "build" : { "dependsOn" : [ "^build" ], "outputs" : [ "dist/**" , ".next/**" ] }, "test" : { "dependsOn" : [ "build" ] }, "lint" : {}, "dev" : { "persistent" : true , "cache" : false } } } "dependsOn": ["^build"] means: build my dependencies first, then build me. Turborepo figures out the order and runs independent tasks in parallel. Why It's Fast 1. Caching — Every task output is cached by inputs hash. Same inputs → cached result → instant. turbo run build # First run: 2 minutes # Second run: 100ms (cached) 2. Remote caching — Share cache across your entire team and CI: npx turbo login npx turbo link # N
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