Faster compilation with fork-ts-checker

[johnnyreilly]

Hey @r-park,

It was great to see your app demonstrated by @ahejlsberg at Build ❤️

I noticed that your app is using ts-loader with webpack. I'm one of the maintainers of ts-loader and I thought you might be interested in speeding up your build. If you are then you might want to check out the fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin. Essentially this allows you to set ts-loader to run in transpileOnly mode and moves the type checking off to a separate process.

What you get in return is much faster build times. I can't claim any credit for this myself - it's all been the effort of @piotr-oles.

If you'd like to see a simple example then check out: https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-loader/blob/master/examples/fork-ts-checker/webpack.config.js

I do plan to blog about this at some point and spread the word a little more effectively.

PS Do feel free to close this issue - it's not really an issue at all; just wanted to give you a heads up.

[r-park]

Hey @johnnyreilly thanks very much for the heads-up 👍 I'll definitely take a look!

Cheers