dev/build: TypeScript WebPack "loader" is old and abandonned project

[danielweck]

Archived repo, 200+ open issues:

https://github.com/s-panferov/awesome-typescript-loader

... probably slow(er) too:

s-panferov/awesome-typescript-loader#497 (comment)

... apparently slower than ts-loader which is an active project, and which can be configured with transpileOnly (for even faster compilation times) and with type-checking in separate process:

https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-loader#transpileonly

https://github.com/TypeStrong/fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin

I am testing ...

[danielweck]

---

ts-loader with transpileOnly and fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin:

npm run clean && time npm run build
=>

• npm run build 130.45s user 5.53s system 505% cpu 26.893 total
• npm run build 124.32s user 4.91s system 499% cpu 25.883 total
• npm run build 123.74s user 4.75s system 506% cpu 25.392 total
• npm run build 123.15s user 4.82s system 503% cpu 25.435 total
• npm run build 121.86s user 4.72s system 502% cpu 25.204 total

---

ts-loader with transpileOnly and NO fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin:

npm run clean && time npm run build
=>

• npm run build 19.70s user 1.58s system 158% cpu 13.444 total
• npm run build 20.20s user 1.40s system 172% cpu 12.540 total
• npm run build 19.73s user 1.41s system 168% cpu 12.575 total
• npm run build 19.50s user 1.39s system 167% cpu 12.468 total

[danielweck]

---

awesome-typescript-loader with transpileOnly and fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin:

npm run clean && time npm run build
=>

• npm run build 145.48s user 6.18s system 523% cpu 28.962 total
• npm run build 143.93s user 5.63s system 536% cpu 27.863 total
• npm run build 139.61s user 5.84s system 528% cpu 27.544 total
• npm run build 140.77s user 5.98s system 528% cpu 27.784 total

---

awesome-typescript-loader with transpileOnly and NO fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin:

npm run clean && time npm run build
=>

• npm run build 31.43s user 2.47s system 152% cpu 22.160 total
• npm run build 30.74s user 2.27s system 153% cpu 21.505 total
• npm run build 30.47s user 2.26s system 155% cpu 21.081 total
• npm run build 31.45s user 2.24s system 157% cpu 21.416 total

[danielweck]

1. export SKIP_CHECK_TYPESCRIPT=1
2. npm run start:dev
3. enjoy :)

(note that production builds ALWAYS execute the TypeScript compiler to check types, i.e. npm run build npm run start npm run package:[win|mac|linux])

unset SKIP_CHECK_TYPESCRIPT to restore default behaviour, or export SKIP_CHECK_TYPESCRIPT=0 (anything other than 1)