Zero config CLI tool for caching and orchestrating builds in monorepos.
pnpm i -D buildcThen prefix any package-specific build commands you want to cache with buildc -- :
-"build": "unbuild --minify",
+"build": "buildc -- unbuild --minify",build also supports only building the package's dependencies, not the package itself. Add buildc --deps-only -- before any scripts that needs the dependencies built before running, like tests:
-"test": "vitest",
+"test": "buildc --deps-only -- vitest",- PNPM workspaces
- Bun workspaces
Note that this is a personal tool, and I only plan on supporting the tools I use. If you want to add support for NPM or Yarn, feel free to open a PR!
It's hard to just use the caching feature of NX/Turborepo without completely migrating to the tools, and using them instead of pnpm/bun, which more developers are familiar with. I found that since build-caching was really the only feature I used from those packages, it wasn't worth migrating to.
Instead, this tools is a simpler version that doesn't add another CLI people have to memorize to use. Well, technically it does, but at the same time, it doesn't get in your way, and I bet people wouldn't even realize it was being called most the time. Which is the goal.
Each package.json can have a buildc field where you can configure options. Listed below are the defaults:
{
// ...,
"buildc": {
// Set to false to disable the cache-checking behavior for this package
"cachable": true,
// The directory where your build is output to
"outDir": "dist",
// List of glob patterns to include when checking if the package needs rebuilt
"include": ["src/**/*"],
// List of glob patterns to ignore when checking if the package needs rebuilt
"exclude": ["**/__tests__/**", "**/*.test.*", "**/e2e/**"],
},
}