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Re: lazr-js upgrade: devmode slow for now

 

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Danilo Šegan <danilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Deryck,
>
> У пет, 03. 12 2010. у 08:30 -0600, Deryck Hodge пише:
>
>> Another note on the lazr-js upgrade (sorry for all the noise on this):
>>
>> Developing locally is extremely slow for page loads right now due to
>> the 450+ JavaScript files that are loaded.  Yes, this is insane, but
>> see my previous emails on really needing a combo loader.  After I
>> finish QA today, I'll turn to this issue and see if there's anything I
>> can do to make this better until I finish getting us a loader.
>
> Do you have any estimate as to when this is going to be fixed?  It's
> very annoying, especially when you are trying to deal with plenty of
> tiny branches for the bug jam :)
>
>> In the meantime, you can work around this by turning off devmode,
>> which will load the single minimized launchpad.js file as we do in
>> production.  You can do this even if you're hacking on JavaScript, but
>> you will have to remember to run `make jsbuild` between changes to
>> JavaScript files, though.  This is not ideal, I realize, but it could
>> help if you're really annoyed by the page load times.
>
> This is annoying because then I have to remember not to commit this
> change.  It'd be nice if there was an env variable for this.  Is
> there? :)
>
> Cheers,
> Danilo

Danilo,

In order not to worry about committing a config change, I do the following:

$ cp -r configs/development configs/foo
$ # Turn devmode off for foo.
$ LPCONFIG=foo make run



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