Look into using Webpack's watch mode about screeps-typescript-starter HOT 5 CLOSED

I'm sometimes working on an older computer without ssd, and there it is a huge improvement. My current test setup has some drawbacks, so it's not worth sharing.
I currently use gulp only to watch the dist directory to upload and use webpack with watch to compile.
Instead of ts-loader I'm using awesome-typescript-loader... the drawback here is that it compiles code and checks types in a different process... so it might upload broken code which is not that bad for me because I develop on a testserver most of the time. I don't have to wait for the typechecks because I'm using webstorm for that anyways.

ok .. but here some numbers on that 2010 computer I sometimes have to use ;)

initial compiling of project with webpack: 4251ms
recompile from watch when changing a file: 472ms

that's really a huge differerence ;)

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Instead of ts-loader I'm using awesome-typescript-loader... the drawback here is that
it compiles code and checks types in a different process... so it might upload broken
code which is not that bad for me because I develop on a testserver most of the time

@bastianh Hmm. As much of a large performance change it gives, not sure if I want to sacrifice type checking for it. Do you think it's possible to do so in the standard ts-loader?

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should be no problem .. the challenge is that with webpack watch mode webpack will not return to gulp .. it will continue running and watching so I guess it needs larger changes to the build system

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I think this can be closed now

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