How to build projects in Monorepository that use shared components

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Hi!
I am using a lerna monorepo with (at the moment) two projects within the “packages” folder as well as a “shared-components” folder in it that gets consumed from both apps.
So the structure is as follows:

  • packages
    • project-a
    • project-b
    • shared-components
  • package.json
  • lerna.json

I set up netlify to use packages/project-a as the base path and for the other site packages/project-b.
It is working just fine and when something changes in project-a only project A gets build and not all the apps.
Problem now is that when something changes in the “shared-components” folder the build gets cancelled as it is not part of the base directory.

Is it possible to fix this somehow?

Thanks in advance!
Greetings, Stefan

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Yup! You’ll have to write a custom build.ignore script that checks for changes where you intend them to have effects. This thread’s several example responses are a good starting place for inspiration:

The script is documented in small detail here: File-based configuration | Netlify Docs