@timfletcher Did you happen to notice a dip in build time when first using Browserify? I think I noticed the biggest jump when I installed Redux and Alt (while migrating to Redux).
IIRC when I was using the 1.2RC and moving things to React (without Redux back then) it was significantly slower and was really causing development speed issues then shortly after 1.2 was officially released there was a new release of Browserify (can’t remember the version, could well be as @energistic says) which sped things up quite a bit.
My Redux migration was after that and I don’t recall any significant changes in speed. I don’t monitor is closely though. All I know is it’s still too slow for me. Migration to webpack is something I really need to do.
Yes without a baseline project, what’s the point of making these comparisons? Some people share OS version but not whether they are on 5400 RPM drive or SSD.
Otherwise some of you might be compiling a project with 10 lines of CSS and three packages, while others are running a project with several thousand lines of CSS and several dozen packages, etc.
Yea having a baseline project would prob. help too. I was most interested in the overall time people had to wait for a reload. In general it’s way too high. Some of compile languages reload faster (with the exception of iOS, that’s a slog).
My SSD benchmarks around 400-500 Mbps (the new ones are much faster) and the ‘fairly empty’ project above with 1line of code and 53 files was ~4 seconds.
This was mostly sparked by my surprise to see that the new ES6 modules didn’t utilize Webpack… but perhaps the new imports will help speed up reloads (haven’t heard back from the PR comment yet).
At least it’s fairly easy to use as a 3rd party add-on. I have one more app that I need to convert yet but am waiting for more test coverage first.
Put a digital clock on the side, add an X to the file, when the secs turn back to 0 I click the save button, then wait for the page to start and finish reloading .