I'm not saying it does not live up to its claims. But it is hard to find out with so much introduction text :)
Is there a dev-server included in fuse-box?
I understand that. It could be more concise. The thing is I don't have a website yet. But I have put it somewhere.
dev-server is not there yet. But it will be supported in the very near future
I try fuse-box in a ionic2 project and it compiles from
ionic-cli in 17 sec in fuse-box ( without the scss from ionic) in 203 MS thats a word i will have eyes on it
I tried switching to fuse-box from browserify. It was a bit faster than straight browserify, but not faster than browserify with persistify. My bundles were taking between 350-650 ms with 21 files adding up to 230k - not a large project by any means.
Ultimately I had to switch back to browserify because I do two different builds, one for dev with sourcemaps, and one for production without sourcemaps. The .fusebox cache was getting screwed up when I switched builds, causing runtime failures because modules were missing. I could remove the cache every time I start a watch or a build, but it takes 3.5 seconds to build from an empty cache, which is crazy slow.
There is a benchmark proving that. With cache enabled, it's actually going way beyond that.
https://github.com/fuse-box/angular2-example
Try using webpack on this project. And compare to fuse-box. You will get a convincing result.
1) Fusebox is not just a bundler it's a loader with a pretty comprehensive API, which WebPack does not offer.
2) FuseBox supports typescript out of the box. It compiles and bundles it in a matter of milliseconds
3) Unlike WebPack, FuseBox does not modify and regenerate the source code. That's a performance boost.
There is so much more,