Ugh. A colleague was struggling with a webpack set up. He was waiting like 30 minutes to rebuild a CSS change.
Meanwhile, I'm using Sass on 2 projects, with around 100ms build times inc. live reload. Clearly there's reason for the disparity.
So we looked and it turns out the webpack fast-sass-loader was around 3000% slower than just sass-loader. It now takes 3 seconds to build CSS changes. That to me is still too high for CSS but it's an improvement.
There seems to be a heavy overhead with webpack in terms of both configuration and actual performance. We may have configured it wrong or maybe fast-sass-loader just isn't as advertised.
Between that and package.json containing a makefile on top of dependencies, it's all a bit nuts.
So we looked and it turns out the webpack fast-sass-loader was around 3000% slower than just sass-loader. It now takes 3 seconds to build CSS changes. That to me is still too high for CSS but it's an improvement.
There seems to be a heavy overhead with webpack in terms of both configuration and actual performance. We may have configured it wrong or maybe fast-sass-loader just isn't as advertised.
Between that and package.json containing a makefile on top of dependencies, it's all a bit nuts.