CircleCI

The following example shows how to use Turborepo with CircleCI.

TTY on CircleCI

CircleCI uses interactive terminals (TTY) that crash Turborepo's terminal UI. To workaround this, set the TURBO_UI=false environment variable in your CircleCI configuration.

For a given root package.json:

./package.json
{
  "name": "my-turborepo",
  "scripts": {
    "build": "turbo run build",
    "test": "turbo run test"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "turbo": "latest"
  }
}

And a turbo.json:

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./turbo.json
{
  "$schema": "https://turborepo.com/schema.json",
  "tasks": {
    "build": {
      "outputs": [".next/**", "!.next/cache/**"],
      "dependsOn": ["^build"]
    },
    "test": {
      "dependsOn": ["^build"]
    }
  }
}

Create a file called .circleci/config.yml in your repository with the following contents:

.circleci/config.yml
version: 2.1
orbs:
  node: circleci/node@5.0.2
workflows:
  test:
    jobs:
      - test
jobs:
  test:
    docker:
      - image: cimg/node:lts
    steps:
      - checkout
      - node/install-packages
      - run:
        command: npm i -g pnpm
        environment:
          TURBO_UI: "false"
      - run:
        command: pnpm build
        environment:
          TURBO_UI: "false"
      - run:
        command: pnpm test
        environment:
          TURBO_UI: "false"

Remote Caching

To use Remote Caching, retrieve the team and token for the Remote Cache for your provider. In this example, we'll use Vercel Remote Cache:

  • TURBO_TOKEN - The Bearer token to access the Remote Cache
  • TURBO_TEAM - The account to which the monorepo belongs

To use Vercel Remote Caching, you can get the value of these variables in a few steps:

  1. Create a Scoped Access Token to your account in the Vercel Dashboard

Vercel Access Tokens

Copy the value to a safe place. You'll need it in a moment.

  1. Go to your CircleCI project settings and click on the Environment Variables tab. Create a new secret called TURBO_TOKEN and enter the value of your Scoped Access Token.

CircleCI Environment Variables CircleCI Create Environment Variables

  1. Make a second secret called TURBO_TEAM and enter your Team URL.

  2. CircleCI automatically loads environment variables stored in project settings into the CI environment. No modifications are necessary for the CI file.