
Turborepo Has a Free Build System That Makes Monorepos 10x Faster — Remote Caching + Parallel Tasks
The Monorepo Problem You have 10 packages in a monorepo. Running npm test across all of them takes 15 minutes. CI costs are through the roof. Half the builds test code that hasn't changed. Turborepo understands your dependency graph. It only runs tasks for packages that actually changed. And it caches everything. What Turborepo Gives You Intelligent Task Scheduling { "tasks" : { "build" : { "dependsOn" : [ "^build" ], "outputs" : [ "dist/**" ] }, "test" : { "dependsOn" : [ "build" ] }, "lint" : {} } } turbo run build test lint Turborepo: Analyzes dependencies between packages Runs independent tasks in parallel Respects dependency order (build before test) Skips unchanged packages entirely Local Caching $ turbo run build • Packages in scope: web, api, shared, ui • Running build in 4 packages web:build: cache hit, replaying logs api:build: cache hit, replaying logs shared:build: cache hit, replaying logs ui:build: cache miss, executing First run: 2 minutes. Second run: 200ms. Only rebuil
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