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Currently whenever someone creates a pull request, the NPM dependencies
are downloaded and installed. This is problematic because we have a lot
NPM dependencies with potentially large files that would need to be
downloaded (e.g. the Bazel binaries).
The caches are currently not being restored because we added the
`{Branch}` variable to the CircleCI cache key. Since every PR has a different
branch name (e.g. `devversion/refs/heads/my-banch`), the cache keys would
never match an existing cache key, and the PR would start fresh by
downloading everything.
We can safely remove the `{Branch}` variable from the cache key because
it does not provide any value since the cached files are based on the state
of the `yarn.lock` file and not based on the current branch name. This reduces
our dependency on the slow and sometimes **flaky** Yarn registry. We should
try to depend as few as possible on external services (e.g. see how Saucelabs
flakiness can cause trouble for the caretaker; same applies to flaky Yarn installs)
PR Close #28480
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