WARNING no output files found for task @repo/ui#lint. Please check your `outputs` key in `turbo.json

[jahands]

Verify canary release

• [X] I verified that the issue exists in the latest Turborepo canary release.

Link to code that reproduces this issue

https://github.com/jahands/turborepo-warning-example

What package manager are you using / does the bug impact?

pnpm

What operating system are you using?

Mac

Which canary version will you have in your reproduction?

turbo 2.1.4-canary.9

Describe the Bug

Tasks with no outputs generate a warning like this:

 WARNING  no output files found for task @repo/ui#lint. Please check your `outputs` key in `turbo.json`
 WARNING  no output files found for task docs#lint. Please check your `outputs` key in `turbo.json`
 WARNING  no output files found for task web#lint. Please check your `outputs` key in `turbo.json`

I find this rather annoying

Expected Behavior

Not to print logs complaining of no outputs for tasks that have no outputs defined

To Reproduce

I repro'd this using create-turbo:

pnpm dlx create-turbo@latest
cd ./turborepo-warning-example
pnpm turbo lint

Results in the following logs:

 WARNING  no output files found for task @repo/ui#lint. Please check your `outputs` key in `turbo.json`
 WARNING  no output files found for task docs#lint. Please check your `outputs` key in `turbo.json`
 WARNING  no output files found for task web#lint. Please check your `outputs` key in `turbo.json`

To repro using my repo:

git clone https://github.com/jahands/turborepo-warning-example.git
cd ./turborepo-warning-example
pnpm install
pnpm turbo lint

Additional context

Tested in both canary and 2.2.0 This behavior was introduced in #9236 which looks like it's only supposed to warn when you have outputs defined, not for every task regardless of whether it has outputs defined

[jahands]

On my main monorepo, this is adding >200 warnings to my logs for tasks with no outputs defined :(

[tknickman]

@jahands thanks for the report, we'll take a look asap

[hckhanh]

I get this warning too

turbo 2.2.1

[kedom1337]

Just encountered the same issue

[psychobolt]

Can someone point out in the docs how I can disable all warnings?

[hckhanh]

Can someone point out in the docs how I can disable all warnings?

You can use empty ouputs to disable the warning:

{
  outputs: []
}

[smoglica]

Can someone point out in the docs how I can disable all warnings?

You can use empty ouputs to disable the warning:

{
  outputs: []
}

Doesn't work to me

[psychobolt]

Can someone point out in the docs how I can disable all warnings?

You can use empty ouputs to disable the warning:

{
  outputs: []
}

Well I was looking for a general option to suppress all turbo warnings, not only from a specific task.

[psychobolt]

I've found out in my case, I can suppress all warnings, including the main issue here. It's in the environment variable docs: https://github.com/vercel/turborepo/blob/bf8fa90dbb69a292ff7bb47f0836258ce9530e29/docs/repo-docs/reference/system-environment-variables.mdx#L21

e.g. TURBO_GLOBAL_WARNING_DISABLED=1 yarn turbo run lint

[tknickman]

@psychobolt that setting will disable the warning when global turbo cannot find a locally installed version of turbo to use - it will not globally disable all warnings.

This issue should now be fixed in latest!

[theandychase]

I'm getting this warning with Turbo 2.2.3, Node 18.18.2, MacOS Sequoia (ARM).

In my case the build.outputs array has a single entry outside of the project root.

[maksnester]

Disappeared for me in v2.3.3

"lint": {},

[nvie]

Is there a way to mark a task's output as optional somehow?

I have a monorepo in which some workspaces output coverage reports and some don't, so I have the following task definition in a global turbo.json:

    "test": {
      "dependsOn": ["^build"],
      "outputs": ["coverage/**"],
      "inputs": ["src/**"],
    },

Now when I run this, I get this warning for the projects that don't output any coverage reports, but I'm fine with that. Is there a way to mark the expected coverage/ output optional?

[Binomi0]

I had same issue but for me was simple, had wrong folder name, my one is dist not .dist "outputs": [".dist/"] -> "outputs": ["dist/"]

This removed that warning for me, FYI, just in case :)

[psychobolt]

I concur that we need a optional flag for outputs. Sometimes there are parts of the task we want to run but don't output results.