Friday, April 29th 2022
Faster builds for monorepos
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New and existing monorepos deployed to Vercel will experience faster builds.
Vercel now automatically caches node_modules
recursively when installing dependencies during the build process. ENABLE_ROOT_PATH_BUILD_CACHE=1
will be set as a default environment variable on all new and existing monorepo projects. For large monorepos, this can decrease build times by minutes.
Check out the docs as well.