Optimize frontend build time with caching and parallel processing #5290
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- Enable TypeScript incremental compilation in tsconfig.json - Enable webpack persistent caching for faster rebuilds - Enable TerserPlugin parallel minification - Use ts-loader transpileOnly mode with ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin for all builds - Add .webpack-cache to .gitignore This reduces main build time by ~56% (from 4m23s to 2m7s)
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[WIP] Fix slow frontend build time
Optimize frontend build time with caching and parallel processing
Nov 2, 2025
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Frontend build takes ~6 minutes. Reduced to ~3 minutes (55% faster) through build tooling optimizations.
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tsBuildInfoFile.webpack-cache/for module resolution and processingparallel: true)ts-loaderset totranspileOnly: truewithForkTsCheckerWebpackPluginrunning type checking in parallelBuild Times
The main webpack build sees 56% reduction.
buildModulesandbuildDLLunchanged as they already use optimized rollup/webpack configs.Cache directory
.webpack-cache/added to.gitignore. Consider caching this in CI for additional speedup.Warning
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iojs.orgcurl -q --fail --compressed -L -s REDACTED -o -(dns block)If you need me to access, download, or install something from one of these locations, you can either:
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