Bypass internalization compilation requirement for frontend update?

[mikelemo]

Everytime I try to make a change to the frontend of the inventree I have to run the command:
invoke dev.translate to get the frontend to update and this just takes too much time (around a minute per compilation) to compile it everytime you want to review the changes and I was wondering if there is a way to bypass / disable it for development since I don't need internalization for the development.

[SchrodingersGat]

If you are doing frontend development we actually provide a separate server process for running the live preview of the frontend - https://docs.inventree.org/en/stable/develop/react-frontend/

Using this, you can make changes to the frontend code and see those changes reflected live on the website. You do not need to recompile the code every time.

[mikelemo]

Thanks I might have went over it in the past but failed to read the small letters as it was probably weird for me to that you have to run invoke dev.server and invoke dev.frontend-server in two seperate terminals (I guess) instead of just launching the thing in a single command including the initial invoke int.frontend-compile

[mikelemo]

Well I am able to move of with the frontend dev still want to play around with stuff to understand the system and philosophy a little better but two things before we set the solutions and close this thread:
after I close the process with ++ctrl+c++ in the invoke dev.frontend-server (base metal) I get the following error:

ERROR: InvenTree command failed: 'yarn run dev --host'
- Refer to the error messages in the log above for more information

anything to worry about?

also when trying to run the docker frontend container command :

docker compose run inventree-dev-server invoke int.frontend-compile

(despite docker compose up works @'/usr/share/inventree/contrib/container' )

It tells me it doesn't recognize the command:
no such service: inventree-dev-server

If and when i run with docker I run it with the normal container and since I use nvim in linux as my text editor rather than microsofts vscode I am not much of a fan of using devcontainers as it is somewhat exclusive to vscode might that be the issue?