Hi all, I've talked several times about using a Webpack-like devserver instead of DevMode, and with a better experience (in most cases) than CodeServer. I had described it in more details in https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9437#issuecomment-250926589
I spent some time this week-end to build a prototype: https://github.com/tbroyer/gwt-devserver There are a few caveats with the current implementation: - maybe intercepts a bit too much, so most GWT-RPC calls won't work (they require the gwt.codeserver.port system property on the server side anyway to load the serialization policies from the CodeServer). It could intercept only *.nocache.js requests but that would break some apps that reference resources from the GWT modules' public path (such as themes) from non-GWT resources; or it could only intercept requests for those resources, but that requires more work. - loads modules only to get their rename-to; the CodeServer already does that, but doesn't expose the information through public APIs. If there's consensus, such a tool could be integrated into GWT proper and directly use CodeServer's API to share information; and completely replace DevMode. One big advantages (IMO) over DevMode, or CodeServer with -launcherDir, is that it doesn't overwrite the *.nocache.js with the compile-on-load stub. One big drawback is GWT-RPC requires the gwt.codeserver.port system property (which requires running the server on the same machine) or using a custom serialization policy loader. We could add a -launcherDir where we'd write the serialization policies (and only those, possibly also the public resources, but not the *.nocache.js stub!) Feedback welcome! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/925d5c77-153b-4e93-ab63-6a2f84a88b63%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
