would be interested in this as well. dev server is painfully slow

I ended up making a shell script to log all the files in the .next directory, and I run it whenever I want to compare.

#!/bin/bash

# Define the desktop path
folder=~/Sites/your-project/.next

# Write the recursive file list to the output file
find "${folder}" -type f | pbcopy

Searching through lists of files isn't very clear, but it's better than nothing. But I'd still really love a legit solution to visibility into what's happening during dev mode.

from personal experience, try turbopack. on my old dev laptop it’s helped improve speeds a lot for me. it’s next dev —turbo, it’s a little experimental still and doesn’t work on some machines.

Yeah I’ve tried it on new projects. We have a decent size app right now - turbo just gets stuck compiling.

I’ve narrowed down the issue to a third party component which we can’t really remove unfortunately.

ah yeah, i've tried turbopack on my main desktop on the same project in which turbopack worked on my laptop, and i had the same infinite compilation issue. hopefully they'll improve it in a future release.

i honestly think the only other way to improve speeds is uninstalling unused dependencies. if you really just have thousands and using all of them, there might not be a way to optimize things.

--turbo makes things faster in certain configurations, but doesn't work in others (same infinite compilation issue). But it's still doing way too much work. I should be building closer to 500 modules, not 5000, and I wish there was a way to know what the extraneous work actually is. As of now, I'm mostly fumbling around in the dark poking at random things.