Watch mode without webpack's dev server

[oliverstr]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
Feature

What is the current behaviour?
When developing a custom server for SSR, the process of building the ssr-bundle is a very bad experience.
The build command can take a long time and there's no watch mode, meaning every time there's a code change the developer needs to kill the server, build the entire application, and run the server again.

If the current behaviour is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

What is the expected behaviour?
build command could have a watch mode option

If this is a feature request, what is motivation or use case for changing the behaviour?
This would greatly benefit developers that have custom servers and want a hot reload option.

Please mention other relevant information.
I can create a PR for this.

Please paste the results of preact info here.

[rschristian]

As build is meant to create a production build (coming from the ReadMe), would it be better to instead add an option to the watch command in some capacity? Adding a watch feature to the build command would mean the entire production build/optimization process would be done on every change to the source, no?

Regardless, would be nice, I agree.

[oliverstr]

As build is meant to create a production build (coming from the ReadMe), would it be better to instead add an option to the watch command in some capacity? Adding a watch feature to the build command would mean the entire production build/optimization process would be done on every change to the source, no?

Regardless, would be nice, I agree.

Makes total sense, was thinking of changing the env to development on the build command but I guess that will get messy.

Cool, should then add an option in the watch that will:

• disable dev server
• add watch mode to webpack
• build the ssr-bundle

Wdyt?

[rschristian]

That certainly sounds great.

Granted, I have absolutely no idea how much work that would be to add as I haven't even glanced at the source for prerendering, but it sounds like it would be a much improved experience, no doubt.

[oliverstr]

@ryanchristian4427 I've got the PR ready, how can I push a new branch to the repo?

[rschristian]

To this repo? Unless I'm mistaken, you can't merge a fork into a new branch on the fork's origin.

If you want to merge into a branch rather than master for some reason, you'll need one of the maintainers to add one for you.

[oliverstr]

@ryanchristian4427 #1264

[gabrielrtakeda]

is there any progress...? this feature would be great.

[rschristian]

@gabrielrtakeda A PR has been made and it's roughly usable if you're interested in trying it. It's been pretty much untouched since being opened though.