Hello there 👋. I have a problem that has been on my mind for a while. In my Next.js app I use a custom backend server. My website uses ISR to stay fast and performant. However, everytime I build my Next.js site, I need to have my backend online. This prevents me from using things like Turborepo, as I cannot run a build command on all the packages my repository has (the website expects the backend package to be running). Has anyone encountered a similar problem? Am I missing something?

Could you create a yarn/npm script to handle this? For example, perhaps something like….

build: "start server & build site"

or you could even use turbo repo

build: "start server & turbo run"

But either way the idea is to have a high level script that runs your backend server prior to running turbo or another build command.

If you need your backend turned on for something like GraphQL codegen there's always the chance of adding your schema as a static output and add it to your vcs, then you wouldn't need to codegen from localhost:4000 every time you want to build something, but instead from a static file