HMR could be faster

I pulled out some stats on our webpack

https://ortastuff.s3.amazonaws.com/data/webpack_stats.json - which you can download, and open with http://webpack.github.io/analyse/

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I don’t have too much internal understanding of webpack as my focus has mainly been on metro bundler.

We see most of the wait inside 92% chunk asset optimization. So what can we learn from this?

We have 2 chunks, I expect this chunk (id: 1) is the storybooks code

We don’t want this to be re-created on an incremental build.

This second one is our app,

You can find the modules in here: http://webpack.github.io/analyse/#module/81

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When you look at the data that gets sent on a hot update, it’s tiny:

It’s just taking a bunch of time to get there

[damassi]

Awesome – that example gist should help. I remember it being a bit of a headache to finally get working but once it was done I was like “hell yeah…” – 7-10 second build times down to around 1 - 2. It was pretty dramatic.

[l2succes]

No we haven’t, definitely worth giving it a try though. I’ll do those and see if we see any improvements.