Using /imports/ui slows down development compared to /client/...?

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I’ve been placing React components in /client/components and any time I make a change, the Meteor process just displays a Client refreshed message and hot reloads the browser almost immediately.

But then I saw recommendations that since Meteor 1.3, you’re supposed to put your UI components in /imports/ui. I tried migrating over, but all changes to those components require a full application refresh – this process takes at least 5-10 more seconds and makes small adjustments to a component quite slow to adjust.

Is this the intended behavior or is there some config option I’m missing?

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The suggested workaround for this is to use imports/client/ui/, since any client/ folder works in the same way as a project root’s client/ folder.

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Also keep in mind that in Meteor 1.4.2 rebuild times will be much faster, so it may become a non-issue for you :slight_smile:.

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Ah great, that works - thanks! So is it now common to have nothing inside the root /client and /server other than your main.js?

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Those are really big improvements on those benchmarks… I’m definitely not seeing an equal rebuild time for my client and server!

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Well it really depends on the project you have and also on your hardware. I have a quite fast SSD in my machine :slight_smile:.

Yes, it’s quite common nowadays with the new imports system.

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Just a quick question: Does /client/imports/ui also work?

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As I understand it, anything you put in client/ gets automatically concatenated, so there wouldn’t really be a point to nesting imports in there.

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MBP 2015 8GB apparently ain’t so hot :slight_smile:

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I also have a MBP 2015 8GB, with 512GB :slight_smile:

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That would also work. An imports/ folder will be ignored wherever it appears in the directory hierarchy.