Precompile tasks

[jkthorne]

Is there a way to have lucky watch or have a separate process in the Procfile precompile the tasks?

The tasks take a long time to run. Even running the help command. It also seems like the tasks are not cached to running the command lucky twice will recompile everything. Is there a way to shorten this runtime?

[jwoertink]

We actually already check for precompiled tasks. https://github.com/luckyframework/lucky_cli/blob/master/src/lucky.cr#L18-L27 If you compile a task, and put it in to the bin directory named lucky.whatever_it_is, then lucky will use that version https://github.com/luckyframework/lucky_cli/blob/master/src/lucky.cr#L41-L43. You should have a bin/lucky.watch file.

Now, things like the help command can't be precompiled because in the case of -h it needs to know all of the tasks you have. If you pre-compiled the help task, then added a new custom task, it wouldn't be displayed.

I do agree that some of these things take longer than what would be nice. I haven't checked, but maybe there's a bug in how that works? 🤔 Try switching out your web in Procfile.dev from lucky watch to ./bin/lucky.watch and see if that runs faster. If it runs a ton faster, then we may need to look in to why that's not being picked up.