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Support hot-reload on client applications #1687

Open ballPointPenguin opened 1 year ago

ballPointPenguin commented 1 year ago

Problem: Rebuilding and Reloading client applications (admin, participation, report) when developing is slow and cumbersome.

Suggested solution: Utilize webpack hot-reloading (dev server) and write documentation to support this workflow

Alternative suggestions: Cloud-based development ?!

Additional context: This is partly supported, to various degrees, in each client app already but needs to be finished and tested and documented.

Simon-Dirks commented 12 months ago

Would LOVE this! Any short-term/alternative workarounds for this or is it really the only option to completely rebuild client-participation with each front-end change? (Takes 20+ seconds on my machine..)

colinmegill commented 12 months ago

I would add that I've got interactive node debugging in the repo as well (VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/nodejs/nodejs-debugging and docker https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/containers/debug-node) working, and found it very helpful. A separate issue, but I'm tagging here specifically to make sure it's included in hot reloading dev workflows because it's implicated in that workflow path.

xeeg commented 12 months ago

@Simon-Dirks We're actively working on completing and releasing this very soon.

Simon-Dirks commented 11 months ago

@Simon-Dirks We're actively working on completing and releasing this very soon.

Hi there! Any news on this? (-:

ballPointPenguin commented 11 months ago

@Simon-Dirks We're actively working on completing and releasing this very soon.

Hi there! Any news on this? (-:

I have an open PR that moves client-report entirely to Webpack (from Gulp), which had been a blocker. With this, all client apps will support hot reloading. I'll have some updated docs and info about setting up and running in "dev mode" coming soon.

Simon-Dirks commented 11 months ago

Awesome news, can confirm that I'm now hot-reloading client-report during development! Only ran into one minor issue (see PR #1721)