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Turbo Remote Cache

Turbo repo offers developers the ability to store cache remotely, and pull from the remote when cache is needed. For more information about Turborepo's Remote Caching checkout Remote Caching

Before you begin​

You will need to setup the following:

  • team: a team name for your project, you can use your team name follow by 'team'. <PROJECTNAME>-team
    • This is used to differentiate what cache files to use.
  • api: https://turbo-remote-cache.main.gesso.lagoon-prd.acromedia.com
    • If you are hosting your own cache server you will swap this URL with that of your server.
  • token: this is your authorization token for the cache server and it can be found in 1password GESSO TURBO REMOTE CACHE TURBO_TOKEN
    • If you are hosting your own cache server then this will have been configured differently and should correlate to the TURBO_TOKEN that was configured with your server

How to use the cache server​

When running jobs via turbo run <TaskName> caching will be available, by default the cache will be created on the local filesystem.

For example Gesso has the following scripts located in the root package.json of their Turbo Repo.

{
"scripts": {
    "build": "turbo run build",
    "lint": "pnpm syncpack list-mismatches && turbo run lint",
    "test": "turbo run test --continue",
    "test:ci": "turbo run test:ci --continue",
    ...
  },
  ...
}

Any of these scripts can be cached. In order to tell turbo to use a remote cache to use remote cache with these tasks add the following arguments.

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Be sure to replace the values for --team, --api, --token before running the command

pnpm build --team=placeholder-team --api="API Route from first section" --token="Token from the first section"