> Looking at the webpack example [2], you build the frontend app every time the server runs? That's REALLY slow for any reasonably sized SPA Of course, the alt

> Looking at the webpack example [2], you build the frontend app every time the server runs? That's REALLY slow for any reasonably sized SPA Of course, the alternative is to commit your built/minified frontend code to the repo, but that's easy & doesn't really require an example. I know the conventional wisdom is "never commit compiled code" but a lot of the reasoning behind that idea doesn't really apply to JS built for the browser. FWIW my usual setup is to have a dev server which rebuilds the frontend SPA like this on every re-deploy/restart - but for production releases, I build locally into a `build` directory and commit it to my repo, and the production server only serves code from `build`. That way I don't have to build on every commit, just when I'm putting new code in prod.