Strategies for faster builds

[alexbjorlig]

Hi everyone - thanks for a great community 🙏

I would like a thread where we can discuss strategies to obtain faster builds - because waiting is never nice. We are currently waiting around 2 minutes and 30 seconds every time we build.

Our team explored 2 options:

Turborepo
Remote caching of build artifacts makes it possible to avoid having to build something, that already exists in the build cache. However, it's a paid service and does not lower the first build time.

Github Actions build-cache
Similar to Turborepo, GitHub can cache the build output but does also not lower the first build time.

What do you do to make builds faster?