Move cache dir from /.cache to /node_modules/.cache

[ekoeryanto]

Summary

Just what title says

Motivation

on most CI we can save node_modules directory to the cache I think it is better to put the cache inside node_modules because it need not more setup, and also on we can speed up netlify build

[jquense]

there is prior art for this as well. babel-loader does this, and a few other things i forgot about...

[m-allanson]

This seems pretty reasonable to me... any thoughts @pieh @KyleAMathews?

[m-allanson]

This is the module used by babel-loader (and others): https://github.com/avajs/find-cache-dir

[jquense]

I do think we should pair such a change with gatsby clean command

[KyleAMathews]

Yeah, seems like a reasonable/good change. One problem is that some of the ".cache" folder isn't actually a cache — it's where Gatsby copies runtime and other necessary files into the project folder so they're available for requiring at a predictable place. We'll need to keep that but other cache files we could move inside node_modules.

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[mathieudutour]

I'm trying to run gatsby on AWS Lambda and it's complaining because the only directory with write permission is /tmp.

What about giving the possibility to specify the cache location with an option (either as an env variable or as a cli option)?

I'm happy to work on this

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