Are there any plans to address the slow hot-reload...
# compilert
Tóth István Zoltán
11/21/2022, 6:22 AMAre there any plans to address the slow hot-reload for JS. I've seen that incremental compilation will be default for 1.8.0 but I remember reading that it's not a big improvement. It is is a real productivity problem for us to wait for the browser to refresh the page.
I am willing to put some effort into this if there are no current plans.
Ideas:
• replace webpack with es
• make webpack optional, use modules directly without DCE and minimization (for development)
• implement a proper multi-module approach
Your opinion about this is most welcome. The JS community would welcome faster development very much and it would open new possibilities for Kotlin.
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christophsturm
11/21/2022, 8:50 AMvite would also be an interesting option.
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Tóth István Zoltán
11/22/2022, 6:54 AMGood suggestion, thank you. I like the multi-modular concept, I'll check this in detail.
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christophsturm
11/22/2022, 9:49 AMIf you start working on Vite support I would also contribute. I currently use svelte and typescript for frontend work because Kotlin has so slow feedback loops
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Tóth István Zoltán
11/23/2022, 6:31 AMHm, Svelte. 🙂 I have a compiler plugin 60% ready that brings svelte type reactivity into kotlin. Not a svelte port, but very similar to it. I had to switch to other project at the end of august, but I plan to revive it during the winter.
This is independent of the web speedup tho.
Tóth István Zoltán
11/23/2022, 6:31 AMActually, that svelte like plugin works, but it does not cover all use cases yet.
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christophsturm
11/23/2022, 11:27 AMCool! Do you have it on GitHub?
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Tóth István Zoltán
11/24/2022, 5:10 AMYes: https://github.com/spxbhuhb/zakadabar-stack/tree/rui/plugin/rui
There is a very short and out-of-sync documentation: https://github.com/spxbhuhb/zakadabar-stack/tree/rui/doc/guides/rui
It's on the rui branch, not on master. The complete repo is a bit big and requires android studio also, but the plugin is independent, it can be compiled without the rest.
This started as a proof of concept project and it would require quite some work to bring it to finish. I plan to work on it when I'll have time.
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