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How do I stop webpacker from rebuilding on demand?

I've been hunting through the Webpacker Gem for hours but I cannot find the mechanism that actually does the on demand compiling in Webpacker. Basically every time I run a request I am having a 90 second wait time while web packer rebuilds.

This is unnecessary as I am running it separate from Rails. There should be a hook or someplace in the code that it says "Hey I can't find the server, let me rebuild".

Anyone have any ideas?

EDIT/NOTE: I'm only asking in relation to the dev environment.

Solution

  • In webpacker.yml have you tried setting compile and hmr options to false

    development:
  <<: *default
  compile: false
  dev_server:
    ...
    hmr: false
    ...

    After changing the settings, restart your server. Give it a try.