why awesome-typescript-loader over ts-loader

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why awesome-typescript-loader over ts-loader #320

Closed BrkCoder closed 7 years ago

BrkCoder commented 7 years ago

Why do you prefer awesome-typescript-loader over ts-loader?

ollwenjones commented 7 years ago

This had mostly to do with performance, as I recall. Folks were seeing significant slowdown after certain releases of tsloader. It might play better with the hmr setup as well, but I'm not certain.

Foxandxss commented 7 years ago

Sorry, I don't have an answer. I had a reason back in the day but I forgot.

I remember that ts-loader wasn't moving forward as fast or had less features. Probably the inclusion of a loader or other changed forced my hand in here.