Add project-reference-based webpack bundling #30
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ts-project-references
is similar tots-transpile
in that it useswebpack
,ts-loader
andtypescript
, except that it can reuse already-built typescript code.Unfortunately,
ts-loader
andtypescript
don't allow using project references while also only transpiling at the same time. So, when bundling withts-project-references
, it's doing a full, slow type-checking compile.However, its reuse of clean (unmodified), already-compiled sub-projects is slightly faster (per-sub-project) than having to transpile from scratch.
This means that in a sufficiently large composite project, making a change to a single sub-project and re-bundling is faster with
ts-project-references
thants-transpile
.Additionally, as a side benefit, this reuse applies to the output from regular
tsc --build
runs, so "linting" the full repo also preps it for a faster bundle as well.However, first time builds become far slower.
Here's some results from a single round of testing: