Hi, I have a runnig web application on the Aurelia CLI.
From what Ive read in the documentation , CLI Aurelia always works “bundled” and never targets the source files directly. By running the au run -watch command, Aurelia listens for file changes and automatically updates app-bundle.js. Example console output:
Starting 'readProjectConfiguration'... Finished 'readProjectConfiguration' Starting 'processMarkup'... Starting 'processCSS'... Starting 'configureEnvironment'... Finished 'configureEnvironment' Starting 'buildJavaScript'... Finished 'processCSS' Finished 'processMarkup' Finished 'buildJavaScript' Starting 'writeBundles'... Tracing views/references... Writing app-bundle.js... Finished 'writeBundles' Starting 'reload'... Finished 'reload'
This is cool, but in my case it leads to bad developer experience. When I get to work in the morning, any change I make is easily updated in app.bundle, but after some time, the buildJavaScript process (see console output) takes longer to complete, after a few hours work even up to 30 -40 seconds! For me, working as a developer and experiencing many small changes is very painful.
I tried (and still have) to stop the au run -watch command from time to time and re-run it again, and initially it gets a little better, but after a while the problem reappears.
My question is: will it be a workaround, or in some way speed it up or make it serve directly from the source files, and not bundled, or maybe with some other solution? Could this be due to a memory leak in Aurelia itself?
UPDATE:
From time to time it becomes so slow that it actually crashes. This is what I received today (and others several times) from the console:
==== Details ================================================ [1]: _tickCallback(aka _tickDomainCallback) [internal/process/next_tick.js:~108] [pc=000000C928AFCE81](this=000003B0DF48BE31 <a process with map 0000012166110B71>) {... FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory