diff --git a/.circleci/conditional-builds.sh b/.circleci/conditional-builds.sh
index 3835193e96..ad9274a460 100755
--- a/.circleci/conditional-builds.sh
+++ b/.circleci/conditional-builds.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env bash
 
+# This script is copied from
+# https://github.com/labs42io/circleci-monorepo/blob/v2/.circleci/monorepo.sh
+
 set -e
 
 readonly REPO_TYPE=$( echo "${CIRCLE_REPOSITORY_URL}" | awk '{ match($0,/@github/) ? r="github" : r="bitbucket"; print r }' )
diff --git a/.circleci/groups.json b/.circleci/groups.json
index f6cfe27e0a..fa914c6021 100644
--- a/.circleci/groups.json
+++ b/.circleci/groups.json
@@ -1,6 +1,22 @@
 {
   "groups": {
-    "backend": ["wagtail/", ":!wagtail/**/static_src/"],
-    "frontend": ["client/", "gulpfile.js/", "wagtail/**/static_src/"]
+    "backend": [
+        "wagtail/",
+        ":!wagtail/**/static_src/",
+        "setup.py",
+        "setup.cfg"
+    ],
+    "frontend": [
+        "client/",
+        "docs/_static/",
+        "gulpfile.js/",
+        "wagtail/**/static_src/",
+        ".eslintrc",
+        ".nvmrc",
+        ".stylelintrc.yaml",
+        "package.json",
+        "package-lock.json",
+        "tsconfig.json"
+    ]
   }
 }