SSR takes a long time on Windows

[archiewood]

(Timebox)

Steps To Reproduce

npx degit evidence-dev/template my-project
cd my-project
npm i
npm run dev

It takes ~20s to launch the dev server

Environment

• Node version (node -v):
• npm version (npm -v):
• OS: Windows
• Browser:

Expected Behavior

SSR is fast and page opens in ~5s

Actual Behaviour

SSR is slow and takes ~20s

[RandomFractals]

On Windows 10 with NodeJS v16.17:

[archiewood]

Perhaps tailwind the culprit:
vitejs/vite#5145 (comment)

[csjh]

Seems like the super long delay right after npm i is from dependency pre-bundling -- though I think vitejs/vite#12441 fixes/speeds up? When I override to 4.3.9 it's around 20s vs. 40 before. Still not sure about the shorter-but-still-long delay for subsequent runs

[hughess]

Here's some terminal feedback I got from a fresh install - this is on Mac, but I assume still applicable here.

This was without touching anything after starting the server. Looks like it ran the query 4 times upon server start: