setup
install https://github.com/stephencookdev/speed-measure-webpack-plugin
npm install --save-dev speed-measure-webpack-plugin
open the webpack config file – for me this was webpack.config.js
the file contained the following:
module.exports = {
// ...
};
which is changed to
const SpeedMeasurePlugin = require("speed-measure-webpack-plugin");
const smp = new SpeedMeasurePlugin();
module.exports = smp.wrap({
// ...
});
results
for me the biggest win I had this time was with babel-loader – adding the following options took around 75 seconds off the build time
options: {
cacheCompression: false,
cacheDirectory: true,
}