Adopt `cache-loader`?

[jihchi]

Webpack cache-loader has been released v1.0.

According to our test for private projects,
Bundle speed improve about 50% e.g. 43979ms --> 20083ms when cache applied.

Will CRA consider to adopt this loader?

[Timer]

We were considering adding https://github.com/jsdf/cached-loader, and it seems webpack has duplicated this plugin.

We will consider adding the more stable option. This is definitely something we're thinking about. 😄

[anilreddykatta]

@Timer If you have anything in mind. Let me know, I will spend time on it!

[Timer]

Hey @anilreddykatta, thanks for the offer!

I don't have time right now to decide what direction we'll be going on this, but I'd be interested in evaluating where it speeds up our project most when applied to specific loader(s).

If you have time, I'd appreciate seeing it applied to babel-loader (instead of their cache) and evaluating the benefits on both npm start and npm run build actions.
We should do the same for eslint-loader, and any other loaders which take a significant amount of time.

[gaearon]

Going to close as stale. At this point it's likely webpack will start caching more things by default to catch up after Parcel.