# Faster builds for monorepos

**Published:** April 29, 2022 | **Authors:** Ethan Arrowood, Steven Salat, Jared Palmer

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New and existing monorepos deployed to Vercel will experience faster builds.

Vercel now automatically caches `node_modules` recursively when installing dependencies during the build process. `ENABLE_ROOT_PATH_BUILD_CACHE=1` will be set as a default environment variable on all new and existing monorepo projects. For large monorepos, this can decrease build times by minutes.

[Check out the docs](https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/git/monorepos#step-4:-set-environment-variables) as well.

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