There is a cache miss

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I'm trying to cache the cypress installation in my build pipeline.

I have this task setup:

- task: Cache@2
  inputs:
    key: 'cypress | $(Agent.OS) | package-lock.json'
    path: 'C:\npm\prefix\node_modules\cypress'

I've run the build pipeline multiple times but I'm always getting the same error:

There is a cache miss

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This is the previous build:

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As you can see it's the same fingerprint, so why is the caching not working?

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3 Answers

One more thing - In order that cache task works as expected all task must succeed.

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user_187001000

  1. Set variable system.debug to true to get more information.

  2. You would check the path to see whether it is correct on the agent machine (you are using self-hosted agent, correct?)

  3. Usually, on the first run after the task is added, the cache step will report a "cache miss" since the cache identified by this key does not exist. As you always got "cache miss" issue, I suspect the cache is not created or uploaded correctly. You may try to do some modification for package-lock.json to recache and re-generated one new key, to see how's the result.

user_54258250

Check the "cache post-job task" results and see if the keys are different.

In my case I had to use npm install --no-save so that the package-lock.json file wasn't regenerated during the pipeline. This ensured the "cache post-job task" was using the same cache key when caching node_modules.

edit

Here is an exported example of what we currently use in our pipeline to cache npm modules.

(You must make sure that your package-lock.json is checked in to your code repository)

steps:
- task: Cache@2
  displayName: 'Npm Install Cache'
  inputs:
    key: '"npm" | "$(Agent.OS)" | my-project/package-lock.json'
    path: 'my-project/node_modules'
    cacheHitVar: NpmInstallCached

- task: Npm@1
  displayName: 'Npm Install'
  inputs:
    command: custom
    workingDir: my-project/
    verbose: false
    customCommand: 'install --no-save'
  condition: ne(variables['NpmInstallCached'], 'true')
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