@mfikes just tried it a few times and every startup is about the same as the initial after adding the :npm-deps false, around ~20 seconds. I don’t have the speed boost as you describe above

Maybe the compiler is using the cached files? Did you try cleaning both npm and lein?

@dotemacs When I do (start-figwheel "ios"), if I have :verbose true in my compiler options, there is a long pause of about 45 seconds with no logging or output of any kind. If I to jstack or kill -3 on the compiler at that point, I can see it is indexing the node_modules directory.

Aha

I’ll try the same and report back how it behaves, thanks

@carocad I’ll do that !