How to get the cache from previous build to speed up CI/CD? #17541

RomainMazB · 2024-06-21T09:14:20Z

RomainMazB
Jun 21, 2024

Hi there!
I would like to improve my app build time in my CI pipeline.

As I understand, Vite should not rebuild the dependencies that were built on the previous build and didn't change since then but because each build is located in a different directory for zero-downtime reason, I think that I may add a configuration to help vite locate the previous build file.

My CI file-system organization is somewhat basic.
I keep the 3 previous build, named by the build datetime inside a releases directory and
I have a current symlink to attach the current build to the Nginx server:

/releases
    |_ 2024-06-20T19:53:20Z
    |_ 2024-06-20T21:45:04Z
    |_ 2024-06-21T08:48:00Z

/current -> ./releases/2024-06-21T08:48:00Z

I think that I may only need to inform vite to load the cache from the ../current symlink but I am not sure of what configuration option I need to set.

May someone points me in the right direction?
Thanks!