Reduce compilation time of Element Web

[novocaine]

Why?

Recompiling the app after making changes can take quite long – in particular when CSS changes are involved. This is not only annoying but also limits our productivity.

What?

We’ll gather performance metrics on build times to define and attack reasonable performance goals.

Plan

Tasks

Beta Give feedback

1. Collect baseline performance numbers for different scenarios (ideally via an automated performance test)
2. Identify scenarios we want to improve and define improvement goals

Internal references

myhours: https://app.myhours.com/#/projects/2028411/overview

[Johennes]

Closing as this hasn't gained any traction so far and will possibly be improved via https://github.com/vector-im/wat-internal/issues/67.