Site Name: air-dev Since Netlify doesn’t seem to support node_modules caching for monorepos out of the box, we are trying to take the clever approach over at GitHub - slawekkolodziej/netlify-lerna-caching-demo: Demo repository that demonstrates a naive way of caching lerna packages for netlify depl…

Hey @dwilt4rville , Thanks for your patience on this! We’d suggest, rather than relying on a specific implementation of the buildbot, checking out the cache utility of our Build Plugins: [image] GitHub - netlify/build: Netlify Build runs the build command, Build Plugins... Netlify Build …

Hey Jen, Build plugins don’t get initialized until after the yarn install step that you guys run on builds automatically completes. And since we’re trying to cache the node_modules for all of the subpackages in our monorepo, this doesn’t work. Let me try and reframe the question: Is there a folder…

Hey @dwilt4rville , you can actually run build plugins at a multitude of different phases, including onPreInstall :+1:

I don’t see a onPreInstall hook anywhere in the documentation for the build plugins

There also seems to be an open issue on GH: Add onPreInstall event · Issue #1149 · netlify/build · GitHub

hey @dwilt4rville - i moved this post to the build plugins area as this seems more appropriate.

Apologies, I was crossing my wires. I did mean onPreBuild though I think you’re right; this may be a little too late.

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dwilt4rville June 13, 2020, 3:45pm 6

Also, came across this: Plugin pre-install steps

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Permission denied: Cannot modify node_modules folder for monorepo caching

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