nx-cacher-cli - custom nx cache like re-implementation for NX Monorepos

Detects npm package version changes and prints affected apps/libs.

Detects fileystem changes using MD5 Hashes.

Detects if a lib/app is importing another lib that changed and will also print the depending libs.

How to use

Run

npm i -g git+https://github.com/xsip/nx-cacher-cli.git

Checkout the previous commit in your pipeline and run

nx-cacher-cli output <tmp_dir>/<filename>.json

After that go back to your current commit and run

nx-cacher-cli compare <tmp_dir>/<filename>.json

This will print out all projects needed to test, build, or whatever you wanna do with them.

Sample Git Actions pipeline

      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20
          cache: 'npm'
      - run: npm ci --legacy-peer-deps
      - run: git stash
      - run: git checkout "${GITHUB_REF:11}"
      - run: git checkout HEAD~1
      - run: nx-cacher-cli output ${{ runner.temp }}/old-cache.json
      - run: git checkout "${GITHUB_REF:11}"
      - run: echo "TARGETS= $(nx-cacher-cli compare ${{ runner.temp }}/old-cache.json)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
      - run: if [ "${{env.TARGETS}}" ]; then npx nx run-many -t build -p ${{env.TARGETS}} --parallel=5; fi

Sample Compare output