Slow application load in development environment

[smalers]

Something seems to have changed with the application development environment since upgrading to Angular 9 (and even 8?). The StateMod dataset viewer has a lot of asset files. Now, when I update any of those the auto-refresh of the application takes a long time (minutes), whereas before it was almost instantaneous. It is as if the compile is looking through the assets. I wonder if there is an ng --serve option to help with this.

I have not tried in the deployed environment but the goal is that in the deployed environment it will be possible to update data files in assets and anyone running the application will see those, without a long delay.

[Nightsphere]

I'm not sure what the issue here is. I also remember when it seemed extremely fast. We're now on Angular 13, and it never really got back to the speed it used to have. I perused the ng serve options, and didn't see anything like "skip assets files" or "make command go faster again" unfortunately. I won't close for now, but I'll bring the priority from high to medium, since it's been like this for almost 2 years now.