I got several (~40) Live reload log events when I change a file (using Rollup)

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Hi everybody,

I’m playing around with the asset pipeline and I tried for example to replace Webpack with Rollup.
While I somehow managed to get the pipeline working (I’m trying Svelte btw) I’m getting a lot of Live reload debug events when I’m changing a file (around 40 lines!).

In my package.json file (from a svelte project) I got the following script tasks:

"scripts": {
    "build": "rollup -c",
    "dev": "rollup -c -w"

So I set the following watcher in my dev.exs file:

watchers: [yarn: ["dev", cd: Path.expand("../assets", __DIR__)]]

If you’re interested, here is a pastebin of an example log I got when I save a file.

Also something weird is that it took almost half a second (here 458ms for example, but it can be more or less) while I have a very little project (a simple sveltejs/template starter project actually).

For example I compared live reload time compilations with a bare Svelte JS project (without Phoenix) with both Rollup and Webpack, and did the same within Phoenix, with Rollup and Webpack.

In the Phoenix Webpack version I got also several debug Live reload lines, but it’s way more less (~6). It’s also way more faster with webpack.
Here is a pasthebin of the log for the Webpack version.

Regarding both of the Phoenix projects I’m running them inside docker while I tested the bare JS versions of Svelte in my host without docker.

For the bare JS versions, the compilation times are a little faster, but in any cases the rollup version is also faster (80~100ms) than the webpack version (100~150ms). Which is more the expecting situation if I look around the internet about benchmarks.

I’m not counting the ms (even if with half a second it becomes really noticeable and the pages are flickering which is kind of annoying) but it’s rather all those logging lines that is frustrating.

But I heard around that Rollup is known to be fast…
Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

NB: Here are some pastebins for:

Thank you very much.

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