Turborepo
Vercel's high-performance monorepo build system. Remote caching, task pipelines, and incremental builds. Drop into any pnpm or npm workspace.
Turborepo is the monorepo task runner from Vercel. You declare a pipeline of tasks (build, lint, test) with their dependencies in turbo.json and Turborepo schedules them in parallel, caches outputs, and skips work that has not changed. Remote caching shares build artifacts across CI and developer machines. The setup cost is low compared to Nx, especially for teams already on pnpm workspaces. Best fit for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos that want speed without a heavy framework on top.
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