How do I develop locally?

[designbyadrian]

Hello!

In packages/model-viewer, there's a Node script dev that runs typescript and rollup in watch mode.

How do I preview the changes I make to model-viewer as watch mode is running?

In the root, there's build and serve. I can view the model-viewer.dev, but nothing happens if I modify any code. The references to model-viewer are only for the node-modules package, and if I change it to the local dist folder of model-viewer, I have to stop the server, run build again, and serve again to see any changes.

[balintkissshapr3d]

You can run bootstrap -> build -> serve from the root, open modelviewer.dev as you mentioned and after you modify the code you can run build again (no need the restart the server)

[designbyadrian]

Thanks, should have guessed that one! There's a lot of building going on though, nowhere to cut corners, and no watch mode?

[elalish]

try npm run build:dev to shorten the build process. You might also be interested in npm run dev. Look though the packages/model-viewer/package.json scripts.