Adding global file dependencies to specific tasks

[TxHawks]

Is there a way to add file-dependencies to a specific task, in the same way files can be added to globalDependencies?

For instance, I'd like to add the root-dir's .eslintrc.js file to lint tasks, but wouldn't want it to blow up the cache on test tasks.

This is pretty much the same as the documented ability to add environment vars to specific tasks, just with files outside the package dir

[nathanhammond]

Hey @TxHawks! I haven't actually tried this, but in theory you should be able to specify the inputs key for a particular node and pass in a traversal path to have it work.

Note that we've updated our recommendation about how to integrate with things like ESLint and would encourage you to create a package with a shareable configuration for your ESLint rules and then pass that package in to extends in your .eslintrc.js at the root of each of your packages. This could result in greater numbers of cache misses, but is a more-elegant solution for granularity of checks.

[TxHawks]

Hi @nathanhammond

Thanks for replying. Unfortunately specifying inputs outside the package directory doesn't work.

I actually opened opened a feature request issue for this at #1064 which details why a shareable configuration in a package isn't a great solution for this kind of dependencies.

[nathanhammond]

I found what may be the issue and would be treated as a bug. I'll get back to you after I poke at it for a bit.

[cinan]

i just run into this eslint config issue. I reported a bug (I misunderstood how pipelines work; turbo is ok) but imo turbo+eslint deserves more examples/better default configuration in npx create-turbo script. I find a solution where I use global dependencies to miss cache when eslint package changes.

[WadePeterson]

Trying to make use of this feature in a large monorepo where we have packages at various levels of depth from the root of the repo.
e.g.,

.eslintrc
/server
  package.json
/packages
  /shared-package-1
    package.json
/client
  /apps
    /app-1
      package.json
    /app-2
      package.json

Is there any way to specify inputs relative to the repo root, instead of the package?

e.g., if each package has a lint command, and they all extend the .eslintrc that lives at the repo root. The path to this root .eslintrc is different depending on how deep the packages is, so using something like ../../.eslintrc wouldn't work.

Tried the following, which did not work:

{
  "$schema": "https://turborepo.org/schema.json",
  "pipeline": {
    "lint": {
      "inputs": [
        "/.eslintrc.js", // <-- how to specify this is from repo root and not relative to the package?
        "src/**"
      ]
    }
  }
}

[scamden]

would encourage you to create a package with a shareable configuration for your ESLint rules and then pass that package in to extends in your .eslintrc.js

@nathanhammond i have exactly this setup and turbo is not busting the cache when i change a rule in the shareable config. for context the config package is a workspace:* dep. it seems maybe turbo is never busting the cache for any of these workspace deps actually. should i file a bug?

[TxHawks]

@nathanhammond Seems to be working fine in 1.2.9 using inputs (see #1064).
Thanks

[sppatel]

There are issues with doing this. When running the task across all packages it somehow is leaving turbo related files behind.

.rw-r--r--   43 sachin.patel 17 May 13:33 f5d755f05b0789de-meta.json
drwxr-xr-x    - sachin.patel 17 May 17:02 f7ecce916ca7ab21/
.rw-r--r--   43 sachin.patel 17 May 17:01 f7ecce916ca7ab21-meta.json
drwxr-xr-x    - sachin.patel 17 May 17:02 f8d55ae17b8b97a2/
.rw-r--r--   43 sachin.patel 17 May 17:00 f8d55ae17b8b97a2-meta.json
drwxr-xr-x    - sachin.patel 17 May 17:02 f9c037450539cc87/
.rw-r--r--   43 sachin.patel 17 May 14:27 f9c037450539cc87-meta.json
drwxr-xr-x    - sachin.patel 17 May 17:02 f9dcc8ecdce8b90b/
.rw-r--r--   43 sachin.patel 17 May 17:00 f9dcc8ecdce8b90b-meta.json
drwxr-xr-x    - sachin.patel 17 May 17:02 f9e241797dd87054/
.rw-r--r--   43 sachin.patel 17 May 13:34 f9e241797dd87054-meta.json
drwxr-xr-x    - sachin.patel 17 May 17:02 f16c6fbf815ba902/
.rw-r--r--   43 sachin.patel 17 May 16:58 f16c6fbf815ba902-meta.json
drwxr-xr-x    - sachin.patel 17 May 17:02 f41ab217bfd85f6a/
.rw-r--r--   43 sachin.patel 17 May 16:50 f41ab217bfd85f6a-meta.json
drwxr-xr-x    - sachin.patel 17 May 17:02 f62cc2ecc94445b7/
.rw-r--r--   43 sachin.patel 17 May 17:00 f62cc2ecc94445b7-meta.json
drwxr-xr-x    - sachin.patel 17 May 17:02 f63ad401ddb1d9a0/
.rw-r--r--   43 sachin.patel 17 May 17:01 f63ad401ddb1d9a0-meta.json
drwxr-xr-x    - sachin.patel 17 May 17:02 f85f49a2ff770db1/
.rw-r--r--   44 sachin.patel 17 May 16:58 f85f49a2ff770db1-meta.json

I've opened #1253