turbo-ignore

To get started, use the following command as your Ignored Build Step:

$ npx turbo-ignore

This uses turbo to automatically determine if the current app has new changes that need to be deployed.

Usage

Use npx turbo-ignore --help to see list of options:

turbo-ignore

Automatically ignore builds that have no changes

Usage:
  $ npx turbo-ignore [<workspace>] [flags...]

If <workspace> is not provided, it will be inferred from the "name"
field of the "package.json" located at the current working directory.

Flags:
  --fallback=<ref>    On Vercel, if no previously deployed SHA is available to compare against,
                      fallback to comparing against the provided ref [default: None]. When not on Vercel,
                      compare against the provided fallback
  --help, -h          Show this help message
  --version, -v       Show the version of this script

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turbo-ignore will also check for special commit messages to indicate if a build should be skipped or not.

Skip turbo-ignore check and automatically ignore:
  - [skip ci]
  - [ci skip]
  - [no ci]
  - [skip vercel]
  - [vercel skip]
  - [vercel skip <workspace>]

Skip turbo-ignore check and automatically deploy:
  - [vercel deploy]
  - [vercel build]
  - [vercel deploy <workspace>]
  - [vercel build <workspace>]

Skip turbo-ignore check and automatically deploy specific workspace and ignore others:
  - [vercel only <workspace>]

Examples

npx turbo-ignore

Only build if there are changes to the workspace in the current working directory, or any of it's dependencies. On Vercel, compare against the last successful deployment for the current branch. When not on Vercel, compare against the parent commit (HEAD^).

npx turbo-ignore docs

Only build if there are changes to the docs workspace, or any of its dependencies. On Vercel, compare against the last successful deployment for the current branch. When not on Vercel compare against the parent commit (HEAD^).

npx turbo-ignore --fallback=HEAD~10

Only build if there are changes to the workspace in the current working directory, or any of it's dependencies. On Vercel, compare against the last successful deployment for the current branch. If this does not exist (first deploy of the branch), compare against the previous 10 commits. When not on Vercel, compare against the parent commit (HEAD^) or the fallback provided.

npx turbo-ignore --fallback=HEAD^

Only build if there are changes to the workspace in the current working directory, or any of it's dependencies. On Vercel, compare against the last successful deployment for the current branch. If this does not exist (first deploy of the branch), compare against the parent commit (HEAD^). When not on Vercel, compare against the parent commit (HEAD^) or the fallback provided.

How it Works

turbo-ignore determines if a build should continue by analyzing the package dependency graph of the given workspace.

The given workspace is determined by reading the "name" field in the "package.json" file located at the current working directory, or by passing in a workspace name as the first argument to turbo-ignore.

Next, it uses turbo run build --dry to determine if the given workspace, or any dependencies of the workspace, have changed since the previous commit.

NOTE: turbo determines dependencies from reading the dependency graph of the given workspace. This means a workspace must be listed as a dependency (or devDependency) in the given workspaces package.json for turbo to recognize it.

When deploying on Vercel, turbo-ignore can make a more accurate decision by comparing between the current commit, and the last successfully deployed commit for the current branch.

NOTE: By default on Vercel, turbo-ignore will always deploy the first commit of a new branch. This behavior can be changed by providing the ref to compare against to the --fallback flag. See the Examples section for more details.

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